Win NT security
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Someone here set the registry of one of the NT boxes to automatically log in to an account with standard "User" priviledges. This user cannot edit the registry, or do much else for that matter... It's the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon that's causing all the problems. This box doesn't have remote administration installed so I can't use another PC to remotely edit the registry.... I want to fix it so that it prompts for login again, does anyone know of a unix 'su' like program or similar to allow me to login to an already logged in box to fix the registry??? I found one program called 'su' for win NT but it requires you to have administrator priviledges to set it up, pretty useless if you ask me!! AARRGGHH it's driving me mad!! :mad: Thanks in advance all!! Liam Senior Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au
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Someone here set the registry of one of the NT boxes to automatically log in to an account with standard "User" priviledges. This user cannot edit the registry, or do much else for that matter... It's the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon that's causing all the problems. This box doesn't have remote administration installed so I can't use another PC to remotely edit the registry.... I want to fix it so that it prompts for login again, does anyone know of a unix 'su' like program or similar to allow me to login to an already logged in box to fix the registry??? I found one program called 'su' for win NT but it requires you to have administrator priviledges to set it up, pretty useless if you ask me!! AARRGGHH it's driving me mad!! :mad: Thanks in advance all!! Liam Senior Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au
Just let the system auto-login, then log out. You'll get the username/password prompt then. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ #include "buffy_sig"
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Just let the system auto-login, then log out. You'll get the username/password prompt then. --Mike-- http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/ #include "buffy_sig"
Ahh yes that would work if the registry didn't also contain "AutoRestartShell" with value set to 0000001. Basically as soon as you log off it logs right back on again automatically :( Senior Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au
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Ahh yes that would work if the registry didn't also contain "AutoRestartShell" with value set to 0000001. Basically as soon as you log off it logs right back on again automatically :( Senior Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au
Ahah!! Success!! From How to edit the Windows NT Registry. "If you want to autolog a user, both TweakUI and the Resource Kit utility AUTOLOG.EXE will do it for you. To configure this using the registry, edit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Set the DefaultDomainName, DefaultPassword (must be non-blank), and DefaultUserName. Set AutoAdminLogon to 1 (all are type REG_SZ). If you ever want to logon as a different user, hold down the shift key as you logoff." Excellent! :-D :-D :-D Senior Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au
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Ahah!! Success!! From How to edit the Windows NT Registry. "If you want to autolog a user, both TweakUI and the Resource Kit utility AUTOLOG.EXE will do it for you. To configure this using the registry, edit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Set the DefaultDomainName, DefaultPassword (must be non-blank), and DefaultUserName. Set AutoAdminLogon to 1 (all are type REG_SZ). If you ever want to logon as a different user, hold down the shift key as you logoff." Excellent! :-D :-D :-D Senior Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au
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The Shift key trick is an old one - M$ had similiar feature when starting up Windows 3.1 to avoid the StartUp group programs to be run.
Same with restarting Win98, you could hold down shift and it would just restart windows (Complete with "Restarting Windows") instead of rebooting the PC. Very helpful sometimes.... :) Senior Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au