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by gladish

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I was "doing research" (i.e. playing around)on my home system (Server 2k without SP1, w98/95 clients)and applied a local security policy denying logon to the Users group. This had the unfortunate result of also denying logon to the Administrators!!Does anyone know a registry key or other workaround to undo this?
I've managed to get into recovery console for the disk (it accepted my password there), but am not sure what to do next. Regedit isn't available in the console, but can probably be found elsewhere.
This would be good to know just in case!
Thanks,
Andy Gladish
Guemes Is., WA

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by michel

1) Have you tried the builtin Administrator account? Normally, he should not be affected by this.
2) If you have other PC's which are networked to this one, try installing the Management console on one of these PC's, and logon remotely... This willallow to reset the security policy.

by gladish

Today's Techmail states that the administrator account is included in the users group and gives the location of the security policy file within WINNT. If I had known this, I could have deleted and replaced the file from within Recovery console.
Thequestion is, why did they do this?
Shouldn't the Admins acct be separate for just this reason?
Michel, I was unable to access the machine through the network, either, since I couldn't load the OS. If it were a server in a work situation, I'd sure want to find a solution besides reinstalling!

by edward clint

I have not yet been in such a situation with Windows 2000. But generally this is the sort of case you would use your handy(and I am sure regularly updated) Emergency Repair Disk. If you are an admin with no recently made ERD you deserve to reinstall >=)

-E

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