By looking at the security log in the event viewer of the workstation.

So if I haven't set up object access auditing already, it's too late to
gather any more data for this event. Is that about right?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Ken Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  How are you finding out this information at the moment? As best I can
> tell, you can use object access auditing to get this information – but if
> you have that on already...
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> Cheers
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> Ken
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> *From:* Clubber Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:14 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Unknown account created and added to local admins group
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> An account has been created and added to the local Administrators group on
> an XP workstation that's a member of a domain. The name of the account is a
> long string of random small and capital letters like this:
> wiwr7eyieUEIRU4EYSRI
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> I see in the Security log when the account was added, then a password
> added, then added to the local Adminsitrators group, and it all occurred
> within 1 minute. But is there a way to tell if another local or domain
> account was used to do the adding, and if so which one?
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