hong: Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 07:35:12 -0700 (PDT) hong: From: hong li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hong: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hong: Subject: Security issue in Windows 2000? hong: hong: If you use the same password for the local hong: administrator on workstations hong: as all other servers's local administrator, (even hong: domain administrator),the local administrator can gain hong: full access to any servers without asking hong: domain info if you logon locally using local hong: administrator account. You even can map to hong: \\servername\c$ whihout asking any domain users info. hong: hong: I recalled this never happenes in NT environment and hong: it always pops you doamin userinfo when you access any hong: server in the doamin if you log on locally. hong: hong: Is this the security hole in Windows 2000 environment hong: or something else? hong: hong: Thanks in advance, hong: hong: Hong
Maybe the authentication credenitals are cached? -- or -- (begin run-on sentence here) If the local administrator of computer A has *GASP* the same password as computer B (which we all know would be a bad thing to do, right class?) then I believe that computer A will try to connect to computer B though NTLMSSP using computer A's password. (deep breath) It is possible to disable all of the shares, expect IPC, in NT/2000. Scott Birl http://concept.temple.edu/sysadmin/ Senior Systems Administrator Computer Services Temple University ====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====+====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Evaluating SSL VPNs' Consider NEOTERIS, chosen as leader by top analysts! The Gartner Group just put Neoteris in the top of its Magic Quadrant, while InStat has confirmed Neoteris as the leader in marketshare. Find out why, and see how you can get plug-n-play secure remote access in about an hour, with no client, server changes, or ongoing maintenance. Visit us at: http://www.neoteris.com/promos/sf-6-9.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
