Privileges

[MW]

I cooked and reloaded my machine...created a local
user...did nothing else...and this user account has
administrative privileges. How is this possible and how
do I make the account lose the privileges?? Thank You!

 

[John A. Wolf]

From Control Panel ... User Accounts will give you the ability to change the
privileges of the user. If that is the only user I don't believe you will
be able to lower the privileges as you need at least one administrator.

 

[Guest]

I was just using that user as an example. I tried
creating a domain account without any privileges and no
matter what I try they all have administrator privilges.
There is an admininstrator account...I just don't
understand how the new users I am creating have those
privileges when it is a completely reloaded machine. I
checked there account and they are not part of any groups
accept for the restricted user group. I have reloaded the
machine twice and it still does the same thing. Any more
advice...

Thank you very much,

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

When you created the account via Control Panel, User Accounts, one of the
options you apparently missed is whether to make the account an
Administrator or Limited User.

 

[Shain Wray [MSFT]]

Hello John,

I have a couple of questions for you -

1. You stated that you created both a local user and a domain user and
both had Admin rights, can you tell me how you created each user and what
groups you added them to?

2. My assumption is that this is a Windows XP machine in a Windows 2000
domain, is that the case?

2. What are you checking to see if the user has admin rights?

Best regards,
--
Shain Wray
Microsoft PSS Security Team

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