Security issue??

[Guest]

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I was recently advised of an issue where a user with a local "restricted"
account on an XP Pro machine, somehow managed to grant himself
administrative rights...

Now, unless he knew the local admin password, or the password of one of the
other admins for the machine, is there any easy way that a 14 year old kid
could have done this??? (other than hacking the password etc...)

Thanks,

Brad

 

[Malke]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

Brad Pears wrote:

> I was recently advised of an issue where a user with a local
> "restricted" account on an XP Pro machine, somehow managed to grant
> himself administrative rights...
>
> Now, unless he knew the local admin password, or the password of one
> of the other admins for the machine, is there any easy way that a 14
> year old kid could have done this??? (other than hacking the password
> etc...)
>

"Hacking the password" as you put it is completely brain-dead easy for
someone with physical access to the machine. Any smart tech-savvy
14-year old could do it. I suggest you have a talk with the kid.

Malke
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