Changing Passwords

[Guest]

Hi, I am running windows xp hoe edition, NTFS, and am an administrator along
with one other person who also has an administrator account. I was wondering
if there is any way to prevent someone from changing your password? (I don't
mind if they can still change it in Command Prompt they're to dumb to figure
out how to do that.) I don't see the point in having an administrator account
where another administrator can change your password and log on as you.
Thanks, any help appeciated.

 

[Marcin Domaslawski]

Hi,

Administrator account (or mambers of Administrators group) is a user who
will be administering machine so it has to have full control. It's normal
and logical that 2nd admin can change same things as 1st.

You can try prevent him from open some applets from Control Panel or access
to Control Panel (gpedit.msc -> User configuration -> Control Panel) or
simply change 2nd user from Administrator to Power user.

Marcin Domaslawski

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your reply, could you please tell me the difference between a
power user and an Administrator. Also I am running xp home and do not have
the option for Power Users Group and windows xp does not have Local users and
groups in computer management. It would be nice if it was set so no-one at
all could change my password though. Thanks. Jake.

 

[Marcin Domaslawski]

Hi,

Hm... you've right in Home Ed. there isn't Power users group. Actually there
isn't many useful tools if you want to managing of security. It would be
hard to solve your problem with XPHE.

As you can read on MS:
Windows XP Home Edition is designed specifically for home users. (...)
efficient simplicity of Windows Me (- the worst Windows I've ever seen .

Differences:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/z04d621675.mspx
http://www.wellesley.edu/Computing/WinXP/wxpgroups.html

Marcin Domaslawski

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi, I am running windows xp hoe edition, NTFS, and am an administrator along
with one other person who also has an administrator account. I was wondering
if there is any way to prevent someone from changing your password? (I don't
mind if they can still change it in Command Prompt they're to dumb to figure
out how to do that.) I don't see the point in having an administrator account
where another administrator can change your password and log on as you.
Thanks, any help appeciated.

You've got it exactly backwards: What would be the point of an
administrative account that couldn't be used for administrative
purposes, such as resetting passwords?

If you don't want another person to have complete control of the
computer, don't grant them administrative privileges. (And, judging by
the fact that you had to ask this question - no offense intended, you
also don't know enough to safely use a computer with administrative
privileges on a routine basis.)


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[Guest]

Ok, the only thing I want to do is to 'lock' my password in some way so
no-one can change it. I didn't say I want an administrator who couldn't do
any administrative things. There's much more to an administrator account than
being able to change passwords. (no offence - but you wouldn't have made that
comment if you understood this.) I don't want anyone to change my password
and no-one asked anyone to comment on my Administrative skills.

 

[Malke]

Ok, the only thing I want to do is to 'lock' my password in some way so
no-one can change it. I didn't say I want an administrator who couldn't do
any administrative things. There's much more to an administrator account than
being able to change passwords. (no offence - but you wouldn't have made that
comment if you understood this.) I don't want anyone to change my password
and no-one asked anyone to comment on my Administrative skills.

Everyone who replied understood your question just fine. The answer is
"no" and has nothing to do with your "Administrative skills". Any user
account with administrative privileges can do anything on Windows XP.

Just in case "no" wasn't clear enough: There is no way you can prevent a
user with administrative privileges from changing your password.


Malke

 

[Jim]

Ok, the only thing I want to do is to 'lock' my password in some way so
no-one can change it. I didn't say I want an administrator who couldn't do
any administrative things. There's much more to an administrator account
than
being able to change passwords. (no offence - but you wouldn't have made
that
comment if you understood this.) I don't want anyone to change my password
and no-one asked anyone to comment on my Administrative skills.

Sure you can lock the password. But, anyone who is a member of the
administrators group can unlock it.

Jim

 

[Guest]

Well apparently Bruce thought that my administrative skills had something to
do with this it was a simple question and no-one nedded to say anything but
no or maybe you could try this instead. Thank you Marcin your answer was
actually helpful. And Bruce didn't understand my question because he wrote
something about taking Administrative privellages away. And I understood the
no bit and Bruce could have said that too but instead he had to post and I
qoute "(And, judging by
the fact that you had to ask this question - no offense intended, you
also don't know enough to safely use a computer with administrative
privileges on a routine basis.)" Simple question simple answer so thank you
Marcin and Jim who actually said something nicely.