Re: Win XP - Renaming administrator, possible vulnerability?

[Mike Dresser <mdresser () windsormachine com>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Mark Kahn - Lists wrote:

> seems like a bug to me, even if the security risk isn't huge.  windows xp
> doesn't allow you to create a _new_ user with a name that already exists,
> why should it allow you to rename a user to one that already exists?
>
> > Rename user account "user1" to "someone"
> > rename administrator account "administrator" to "user1"

But user1 doesn't exist after the rename to someone, does it?

Mike