we have created another local acccount belonging to the local Administrator group. we reserved the local administrator account for the IT department. we published the password of the other "admin" account to the owner of the laptop. In this case, we still have a control to the computer in case of, and the user has the ability to install printers and applications.
Actually, we have no restricted policy for users on their computer. Monday, February 03, 2003, 6:16:45 PM, you wrote: LD> What do you guys use for a policy on the local administrator account for NT4 LD> / W2K boxes? Renaming the account is a given, but do you change that LD> password on occasion? With a few hundred boxes I could see this becoming an LD> issue even if the password change is scripted. LD> Dave Lum - [EMAIL PROTECTED] LD> Sr. Network Specialist - Textron Financial LD> 503-675-5510 LD> ------ LD> You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] LD> Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp LD> To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% -- Best regards, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
