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Re: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs
From: "Exibar" <exibar () thelair com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:54:49 -0500
It's actually very easy to prevent any policies from coming down to your system if you have local admin rights. What you do is first, delete the policies from the registry, then deny everyone (except for a locally created user) access to the policy key. You'll see the failures in the event log when a new policy attempts to get written. Viola! no more policies.... Easy as pie.... Exibar ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Exim" <security () exim dyndns org> To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:50 AM Subject: [Full-disclosure] W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs
It has been pointed out several times recently on the SF mailing lists
that
a W2k user with local administrator rights can prevent group policy application on his/her machine and there is apparently nothing the domain administrator(s) can do about it (see
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/focus-ms/2003-09/0106.html
for an example) Does anyone know exactly (a) how, and (b) why this is possible? Is there really no workaround other than removing the users from the local Administrators group? I keep discovering W2k machines where end users
have
been granted local admin rights (yuk!) and I'm trying to convince the relevant domain admins that, while this is an easy way to make legacy software work, it isn't such a great idea from a security point of view... Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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Current thread:
- W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs James Exim (Oct 29)
- Re: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs Exibar (Oct 29)
- Re: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs yossarian (Oct 29)
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- RE: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs Sergey V. Gordeychik (Oct 29)
- RE: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs Sergey V. Gordeychik (Oct 29)
- Re[2]: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs 3APA3A (Oct 30)
- RE: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs Sergey V. Gordeychik (Oct 30)
- Re: W2k users, local admin rights and GPOs Exibar (Oct 29)