Administrator's account

[gerbieIT]

Is there a way in an NT4.0 enviroment to disable/delete the built-in Adminstrator account.

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[wolluf]

Yes (disable it in user manager from another administrative account) - but why? (you can get into problems if this account is disabled). You can also rename it (often done for security reasons - much harder hacking the account if hacker doesn't know what its called).

 

[gerbieIT]

I have been getting hacked alot. I have renamed but still not feeling secure about it. I tried to disable it in user manger but it tells me it can't be disabled.

 

[cmeagan656]

If you've been getting hacked a lot it sounds like someone is running a password sniffer from inside your network. Or you're infected by a trojan. Have you done virus and spyware scans lately?

Also, the strongest passwords you can have are either 7 or 14 characters long. Be sure to include alpha, numerical, and sundry characters.

Cheers.

 

[comtec17]

NEVER NEVER NEVER disable the Administrator account. Like the above have mentioned, change the name of the account and add a very unique and long password as cmeagan has recommended.

 

[TechLad]

Here is a good one...rename the administrator account and then create a seperate account called administrator, won't stop the determined hacker but will annoy the hell out of them when they realise they have hacked the password on a useless account


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