Different accounts in Windows XP

[Dave Neve]

Hi

I need to set up a limited account with XP Professional.

I managed to do this but the person seems to have access to the
administrators account and the 'my documents' folder within.

The administrator's 'my documents' folder is on the D partition and not the
C partition where Windows is installed (in case of reinstallation)

Could this have sth to do with it or have I missed out sth else?

Thanks in advance

Dave Neve

Dave Neve

 

[Gordon]

Hi

I need to set up a limited account with XP Professional.

I managed to do this but the person seems to have access to the
administrators account and the 'my documents' folder within.

The administrator's 'my documents' folder is on the D partition and not the
C partition where Windows is installed (in case of reinstallation)

Could this have sth to do with it or have I missed out sth else?

Thanks in advance

Dave Neve

Dave Neve

Have you put a password on the Administrator account?

 

[Guest]

Make sure drive d is NTFS. You cant secure anything under fat or fat32

 

[Dave Neve]

Hi

I have NFTS drives and the administrators account is password protected but
the limited account still has access to the administrators documents.

Any other ideas please?

Thanks

 

[Peter]

Make sure drive d is NTFS. You cant secure anything under fat or fat32

You can't secure *anything* if the attacker has physical access to the
machine


Peter.

 

[Dave Neve]

Hi

So what is the point of separate accounts then???

Thanks

 

[Gordon]

Hi

So what is the point of separate accounts then???

The point of separate accounts is that *normal* users don't go out of
their way to hack passwords and deliberately try to get at other users'
files.

 

[Peter]

So what is the point of separate accounts then???

None if the attacker has unsupervised physical access to the PC. He
can just boot off a DOS floppy disk or a bootable CD, and run NTFSDOS
or some other utility.


Peter.