Guest alec cove Posted April 9, 2008 Posted April 9, 2008 Were trying to track down an odd problem. Our intranet box is Windows Server 2000. In the users, the guest account is listed, however when we view its properties it's listed as the Administrator. The guest account is a member of the Administrators group, which obviously seems like a problem in of itself. We're basically cleaning up after an old sys admin. Has anyone encountered this, and can you advice regarding the second point? TIA
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted April 9, 2008 Posted April 9, 2008 Re: Odd problem - Guest Account is Administrator Well, as everybody knows, Guest account is never an administrator by default. What role is this server hosting? Who has access to this server? Maybe someone changed the account on purpose? -- Jabez Gan Microsoft MVP: Windows Server http://www.msblog.org "alec cove" <alec.cove@gmail.com> wrote in message news:6342f3fe-53dc-48b2-8a3c-8dafc03bd5d0@e67g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... > Were trying to track down an odd problem. Our intranet box is Windows > Server 2000. In the users, the guest account is listed, however when > we view its properties it's listed as the Administrator. > > The guest account is a member of the Administrators group, which > obviously seems like a problem in of itself. We're basically cleaning > up after an old sys admin. > > Has anyone encountered this, and can you advice regarding the second > point? > > TIA
Guest alec cove Posted April 9, 2008 Posted April 9, 2008 Re: Odd problem - Guest Account is Administrator Its our intranet machine. Shouldn't the guest account still say guest when you go into its properties window, even if it is (wrongly) part of the Administrators group? Users throughout the company have file level access to it. On Apr 9, 11:10 am, "Jabez Gan [MVP]" <mingte...@blizNOSPAMhosting.com> wrote: > Well, as everybody knows, Guest account is never an administrator by > default. > > What role is this server hosting? Who has access to this server? Maybe > someone changed the account on purpose? > > -- > Jabez Gan > Microsoft MVP: Windows Serverhttp://www.msblog.org
Guest JohnB Posted April 9, 2008 Posted April 9, 2008 Re: Odd problem - Guest Account is Administrator Where exactly does it say Administrator in the Guest account? Does it say Administrator in the box titled "Full Name" or next to the icon just above that? "alec cove" <alec.cove@gmail.com> wrote in message news:70458f3e-6d91-4e79-ab7e-a9d53aa69710@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > Its our intranet machine. Shouldn't the guest account still say guest > when you go into its properties window, even if it is (wrongly) part > of the Administrators group? > > Users throughout the company have file level access to it. > > On Apr 9, 11:10 am, "Jabez Gan [MVP]" > <mingte...@blizNOSPAMhosting.com> wrote: >> Well, as everybody knows, Guest account is never an administrator by >> default. >> >> What role is this server hosting? Who has access to this server? Maybe >> someone changed the account on purpose? >> >> -- >> Jabez Gan >> Microsoft MVP: Windows Serverhttp://www.msblog.org
Guest kj [SBS MVP] Posted April 10, 2008 Posted April 10, 2008 Re: Odd problem - Guest Account is Administrator JohnB wrote: > Where exactly does it say Administrator in the Guest account? Does > it say Administrator in the box titled "Full Name" or next to the > icon just above that? Guest and Administrator accounts can be renamed and often are for intended value of strengthing security. If it truely is *the* guest account that is a member of the administrators, then that is bad. >> Users throughout the company have file level access to it. Likely they have much more access to it than they even know. > > > > "alec cove" <alec.cove@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:70458f3e-6d91-4e79-ab7e-a9d53aa69710@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... >> Its our intranet machine. Shouldn't the guest account still say guest >> when you go into its properties window, even if it is (wrongly) part >> of the Administrators group? >> >> Users throughout the company have file level access to it. >> >> On Apr 9, 11:10 am, "Jabez Gan [MVP]" >> <mingte...@blizNOSPAMhosting.com> wrote: >>> Well, as everybody knows, Guest account is never an administrator by >>> default. >>> >>> What role is this server hosting? Who has access to this server? >>> Maybe someone changed the account on purpose? >>> >>> -- >>> Jabez Gan >>> Microsoft MVP: Windows Serverhttp://www.msblog.org -- /kj
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