You guys are missing the part that he said its COMPUTERNAME\none. This means its a local account, nothing to do with AD. Im not that familiar with vista users but I would not be suprised if this was some sort of system generated account.
Charles Hardin On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Erik Boles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also -- if the user is deleted from A-D that had access to that folder it > will show the SID rather than the name of the user as that container for the > user still exists, it just doesn't have a name any longer. > Erik > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Li > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:30 AM > To: Red Cat > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: S-1-5-21... > > Hi, > > Normal, the user like 'S-1-5....' is a domain account. After your > computer is added into a domain (AD), the administrator account of the > domain is added to your local administrators group automatically. And > when you browse the security property of the folder, OS will query the > real name of that domain user. Before the query is done, you'll see > the name is 'S-x-x-xxx'. > > Dennis > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Red Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hey, >> >> I have a question on something I saw on my computer today. I'm on a >> Windows Vista. I was looking at some of the "properties" of some >> folders in my "Public" folder and clicked on the "Security" tab. Then >> I noticed my usual login user, "Everyone", and one other user, whose >> id seemed to be S-1-5-21...and some numbers. Then after a couple >> moments it turned into the user, "None" with (My computer name\None) >> right next to it. I looked at the permissions it was given and >> apparently it was given "Special Permissions." I was pretty sure I >> didn't and never had created a user named "None". But I still checked >> the Users folder to see if there was indeed a user named "None". There >> wasn't. I even checked to see if there were any hidden users using the >> "view hidden folder option", but there was no uesr by the name of >> "None". I looked on google for some time but all I managed to find was >> that it could possibly be a remnant from a past OS or something. But >> this computer had Vista installed on it when I got it. Also, it might >> be some sort of guest that was made for my computer or something. My >> own speculation is that it has something to do with the fact that I >> used Cygwin to open up a tarball and create this folder. Anyway, what >> does this user mean? Why does it have special permissions? Is it some >> sort of sign that I have a back door somewhere on my computer or that >> I'm being keylogged or something? Thanks in advance. >
