Hi Michael
If you have Account Management auditing enabled you should see 624 events that
show the account used to create new accounts. Here's an example.
***
Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Account Management
Event ID: 624
Date: 1/12/2006
Time: 2:48:41 p.m.
User: DEV\su-141820
Computer: ADC01
Description:
User Account Created:
New Account Name: jamesb
New Domain: DEV
New Account ID: DEV\jamesb
Caller User Name: su-141820
Caller Domain: DEV
Caller Logon ID: (0x0,0x72DE0)
Privileges -
Attributes:
Sam Account Name: jamesb
Display Name: James Blench
User Principal Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home Directory: -
Home Drive: -
Script Path: -
Profile Path: -
User Workstations: -
Password Last Set: <never>
Account Expires: <never>
Primary Group ID: 513
AllowedToDelegateTo: -
Old UAC Value: 0x0
New UAC Value: 0x15
User Account Control:
Account Disabled
'Password Not Required' - Enabled
'Normal Account' - Enabled
User Parameters: -
Sid History: -
Logon Hours: <value not set>
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
***
The name of the account used to create the new user is shown in the Caller User
Name field (in this case su-141820, which is a member of Domain Admins).
Tony
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Thommes, Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:33:22 -0600
I wonder if someone could explain to me (or point me at some reference)
about what mechanism is used to populate the information in a Windows
event log entry. The reason why I ask is that I see in the Security log
when a new user account is created by an account which is a member of
the Domain Admins group, the _OBJECT_OWNER=XYZ\Domain Admins , not
XYZ\adminacct1 . If it is created by an account that is a member of the
Account Operators group, then _OBJECT_OWNER=XYZ\operacct1, not
XYZ\Account Operators .
This makes auditing somewhat less worthwhile. Is this design on purpose
or a deficiency? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Mike Thommes
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