Is there any way to join a Windows computer onto AD, without knowing the 
password of a Domain Administrator?

I ask because one of my users supposedly did it.  None of the admins helped to 
join a fresh-out-of-the-box machine onto the domain, and yet it's on the 
domain.  I asked the user about this, and the response was gruff and vague, 
"I'm smart... I didn't have any help... I only used my own password..."   and 
exit the room.

I double-checked, and the user is not part of the domain admins group.  I also 
double-checked, and my own "normal user" account is not able to join a machine 
onto the domain.

The way I see it, there are only two possibilities - (a) somehow a normal user 
can join the domain without any admin help, or (b) somehow one of the domain 
admin accounts was compromised.  

Do I ...
(a)  Simply talk to the manager and request that the user be fired. (and do all 
the necessary password resets, etc)
(b)  (With manager present)  Offer the user the opportunity to demonstrate this 
accomplishment without a domain admin pass, and then request for the user to be 
fired if it can't be repeated on another machine.
(c)  (Without manager present)  Ask the user to show me something cool that 
I've never seen before, that I didn't think was possible.


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