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Windows 2000 built-in groups

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by shawn.dejarnatt

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We've made users at our facility members of the power-users group. Now they need more rights. We've agreed not to add them to the administrators group, and we can't visit each workstation to set up a new group and modify the rights that way. So, is there a way to modify the power user rights predefined in Microsofts built-in group? If there is, how.

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by chris_beegle

What rights do you need? Do you know what they are?

Of course you don't have to do this at each workstation. Just yours.

you can use ntrights.exe from the resource kit to assign advanced rights to the user group.

By default Power Users haveChange permissions on the File System. You can use Cacls with a UNC.

But will need to know a little more detail on what you are trying to do to be able to help you further.

by jeremiah.prater

If you have assigned them to the power user group, I must assume that you are not running a 2000 domain, but instead have a group of workstations. If this is the case, you can use the MMC to modify the power user rights on one machine, and then c:\net use into the mmc's of the other machines and copy your saved security files over.

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