Effective permissions suddenly admin for limited users
The oddest thing just started happening.
I have 3 limited users running on my XP SP3 box. These users are members of the Users group only. All of a sudden, all of the users are now like administrators with full access to everything including the other limited users' private directories. Looking at the "Effective Permissions" on any of these supposedly hidden directories gives ALL of the permissions. The users can even write to the "\Program Files" and "\WINDOWS" directories; obviously a catastrophic state if security is at all important. I have no idea what to do about this. Can this be a virus? Is there something in some hidden group policy or other tweak that will restore these users back to being unable to access other directories? These users can also see and write to all areas of the registry too. I am worried that this is the result of some sort of bug in a Microsoft update, since how else but the O/S allowing this access at the NT level could this occur? Any advice most gratefully accepted. TIA. |
Effective permissions suddenly admin for limited users
Sounds like they are in the administrators group or a group that is the
local administrators group. Try running the command net localgroup administrators to see if it shows expected membership. Steve "Fred" wrote in message ... The oddest thing just started happening. I have 3 limited users running on my XP SP3 box. These users are members of the Users group only. All of a sudden, all of the users are now like administrators with full access to everything including the other limited users' private directories. Looking at the "Effective Permissions" on any of these supposedly hidden directories gives ALL of the permissions. The users can even write to the "\Program Files" and "\WINDOWS" directories; obviously a catastrophic state if security is at all important. I have no idea what to do about this. Can this be a virus? Is there something in some hidden group policy or other tweak that will restore these users back to being unable to access other directories? These users can also see and write to all areas of the registry too. I am worried that this is the result of some sort of bug in a Microsoft update, since how else but the O/S allowing this access at the NT level could this occur? Any advice most gratefully accepted. TIA. |
Effective permissions suddenly admin for limited users
"Old Rookie" wrote: Sounds like they are in the administrators group or a group that is the local administrators group. Try running the command net localgroup administrators to see if it shows expected membership. Thanks for that suggestion. I am not at the machine right now, so I will need to try this in the evening. I wonder about this though, since when I checked "computer management"-users/groups, I did not see any weird memberships. Would this show something different? Thanks again. Steve "Fred" wrote in message ... The oddest thing just started happening. I have 3 limited users running on my XP SP3 box. These users are members of the Users group only. All of a sudden, all of the users are now like administrators with full access to everything including the other limited users' private directories. Looking at the "Effective Permissions" on any of these supposedly hidden directories gives ALL of the permissions. The users can even write to the "\Program Files" and "\WINDOWS" directories; obviously a catastrophic state if security is at all important. I have no idea what to do about this. Can this be a virus? Is there something in some hidden group policy or other tweak that will restore these users back to being unable to access other directories? These users can also see and write to all areas of the registry too. I am worried that this is the result of some sort of bug in a Microsoft update, since how else but the O/S allowing this access at the NT level could this occur? Any advice most gratefully accepted. TIA. |
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