Re: [Full-disclosure] need help in managing administrators

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 2, 2007 4:04 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:32:22 EST, T Biehn said:
> > Clearly stated, he was cleaning up DOMAIN Administrators, which can,
> > you know, Administer all the computers on the domain.
>
> What, you don't think that some people are unfortunate enough to be newcomers
> to the field, and their first assignment is to clean up a net that an even
> less clued predecessor set up with 'users-as-domain-admins' because the
> previous guy didn't know the difference between -as-admin and 
> -as-domain-admin?
>
> Keep in mind that we were *all* that clueless at one time.  For some of us,
> it was 30 years ago, for others it's 30 hours ago.

Anyone who was a security expert 30 yrs ago should be ridiculed. Their
job description was "I inspect all 5 & 1/4 disks that get mailed to
us" and should be a reason NOT to hire them :-P

> > I guess we'll all just denounce our friend here for even thinking he
> > could ask a question as STUPID and RIDICULOUS as this one, instead of
> > actually knowing or thinking about one could do.

Whatever, just add a local account that has write access to
c:\progra~1\ and HKLM/Software, and grant the users read access to the
same (xcacls and regedt32 + logon.bat will do this for you) and you
are good.

-JP

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