Administrator Group Accounts

[Vince]

I have several user accounts that are Members of the Administrators
group existing in my XPpro; as seen when using Properties under
Computer Management/ Local Users and Groups/ Users.

Do members of the Administrators group have equal authority rights?
Or, is there something unique about the original/default
Administrator?

 

[Malke]

I have several user accounts that are Members of the Administrators
group existing in my XPpro; as seen when using Properties under
Computer Management/ Local Users and Groups/ Users.

Do members of the Administrators group have equal authority rights?
Yes.

Or, is there something unique about the original/default
Administrator?

No.

Malke

 

[pcbutts1]

The rights are equal unless you specifically change one using group policy
editor.

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[Vince]

No.

Malke

Thank you for your reply.

Then it does not matter what the selected named, or renamed, user
accounts are, if within the Administrators Group, any one of the
members can restore/troubleshoot a problem.

I was greatly concerned that the original/default administrator user
account that is generated during installation of XPpro had something
else -builtin- that would be important if/when I had to contact Dell
for assistance. This computer has Dell OEM XPpro SP2 preinstalled.

Ciao,
~ Vince ~

 

[Vince]

No.

However, I have noticed that the "default administrator" and the "
default guest" user accounts have a unique Description when viewing
Computer Management in Administrative Tools, Local Users and Groups>
Users; the Description column identifies Administrator and Guest as
being builtin accounts, for administrating the computer/domain.

Since every XP computer has those two default user accounts, my guess
is that hackers can/may exploit this fact.

 

[David Candy]

It's ONLY special feature is that it can't be deleted. It can be turned off. It can AND SHOULD be renamed (for corporate situations where CASH is at stake). Unlike user accounts you rename Admin (and maybe guest for that matter) in Local Security Policy under Security Options.

You need two things to logon. A name and password, leaving it as admin makes it easy to guess 1/2 of the required information.