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RE: Win XP - Renaming administrator, possible vulnerability?

From: Mike Dresser <mdresser () windsormachine com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:43:16 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, ANDRIEU Sebastien (Neuilly Gestion) wrote:

Totally agree.

if you begin by rename the first account, it doesn't exist anymore...

You can't have two accounts with the same login name.

It's not a hole for me.

Sebastien


But the original problem was that both "users" are sharing the same login
name, and by picking the right password, you pick which account you want
to login with.

Mike

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