Power User group

[North Coast Sea Foods]

Can any user create a Power User Group, or is it just the Administrator?

 

[Leonard Grey]

Only Administrators can create user accounts.

 

[John John - MVP]

The Power User Group is a built-in group. Which XP version are you
using? This group is not present on the Home version.

John

 

[John John - MVP]

Power Users can create security principals (users and groups) but they
cannot give the principals administrative privileges. Power users can
delete principals that *they* have created, not ones created by others.

John

 

[Leonard Grey]

Thank you for that correction.

 

[North Coast Sea Foods]

Thx

Power Users can create security principals (users and groups) but they
cannot give the principals administrative privileges. Power users can
delete principals that *they* have created, not ones created by others.

John

 

[North Coast Sea Foods]

Using XP Professional.

I did not know if anyone could create the Power User group or just the
Administrator.

I have few (trusted I thought!) users playing around with the Power User
Group.

 

[John John - MVP]

Power Users are really somewhat like Administrators under a cloak or
Administrators in waiting, to quote one security expert: "Power Users
are simply Administrators who have not made themselves Administrators
yet."

Power Users have broad powers and with their power to install and run
any software they can easily gain all administrator privileges. When
granting users Power User rights you should really ask yourself if you
can trust them as administrators, if the answer is no then they should
probably not be trusted as Power Users.

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=825069
A member of the Power Users group may be able to gain administrator
rights and permissions in Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, or Windows XP

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2006/05/01/the-power-in-power-users.aspx
Mark's Blog : The Power in Power Users

John