That covers one element of it from a technical standpoint but my primary point (which I could have stated much clearer) was that if they are administrators on the box they can do anything they want. Regardless of what you or I put in a GPO it is relatively trivial to get around it for a determined person that already has administrative rights.
From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: deny restart local policy? just apply a group policy that enforces the SeShutdownPrivilege not to be applied to local administrators, but to a domain group instead. We used to have to do this when we were responsible for controlling a domain with administrators who thought they had the God-given right to take things offline that were governed by our SLAs. However, you might want to set up and add to this GPO a local user account that can shut down the system as well, just in case you lose domain connectivity and find yourself with a system you can't restart - although there is always the power cord, or RIB/DRAC/ILO reset function.... 2008/12/10 Free, Bob <[email protected]> SeShutdownPrivilege (Shut down the system) allows a user to restart, sleep, or shutdown the computer. Be aware that administrators are also granted SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege (Force shutdown from a remote system) by default. That said, I'm not sure how you are going to accomplish this if the users have local admin rights. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Berry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: deny restart local policy? does the Local Policy/User Rights Assignment/Shut Down The System part of policy encompass a restart as well as shutdown? need to deny folks on a particular TS box that require local admin rights the ability to reboot it. i don't recall if explicit denial of "shut down the system" also means "you can't reboot it either sucka" ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
