Admin equivalent group

[Guest]

This should be an easy one for a Microsoft Guru (which I am not)

In Windows XP Pro, in Computer Management, I created a new Group called 'Onyx Remote Users'

How do I make this new groups rights (to files, directories, registry, ability to install software, etc) just like the Administrators group? I want this group to be able to do WHATEVER the Administrators group can do

There must be a quick, simple way to do this other than going into Local Security Policy and matching things up there, assigning security on folders, etc

Thanks in advance..

Steve

 

[Roger Abell]

The only simple way to do this is to make each account
that you make a member of this custom group also a member
of the Administrators group. At that point one must ask, so
then what is the use of the custom group ?

To do what you want would require visiting everything in
the OS that has a name, and a few more, and making a grant
to the custom group whereever there is one to Adminstrators.
Doing this is practically impossible, and even after that there
would be a few things the members of the custom group would
not have allowed to them but which are to Administrators.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA

This should be an easy one for a Microsoft Guru (which I am not).

In Windows XP Pro, in Computer Management, I created a new Group called 'Onyx Remote Users'.

How do I make this new groups rights (to files, directories, registry,

ability to install software, etc) just like the Administrators group? I
want this group to be able to do WHATEVER the Administrators group can do.

There must be a quick, simple way to do this other than going into Local

Security Policy and matching things up there, assigning security on folders,
etc.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Simply add the "'Onyx Remote Users" to the local Administrators
group.

Bruce Chambers

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This should be an easy one for a Microsoft Guru (which I am not).

In Windows XP Pro, in Computer Management, I created a new Group called 'Onyx Remote Users'.

How do I make this new groups rights (to files, directories,

registry, ability to install software, etc) just like the
Administrators group? I want this group to be able to do WHATEVER the
Administrators group can do.

There must be a quick, simple way to do this other than going into

Local Security Policy and matching things up there, assigning security
on folders, etc.