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Arent these kinds of updates pushed out my Central IT? Just because they can push it out, there are still a lot of employees watching the update run that proba
by johnnyo 10y ago
Arent these kinds of updates pushed out my Central IT? Just because they can push it out, there are still a lot of employees watching the update run that probably don't have admin access.
- derefr 10y agoAnother common Raymond Chen reminder: "Local Administrator != Domain Administrator". If a user gains administrative privileges on their own machine as part of a corporate network, that just means they can bork their own machine and IT will have to come and take it for repair (and they'll likely be disciplined for doing stupid things against IT policy.) If becoming a local administrator on your own machine allows you more privileges on the network, there's something wrong with the network's security architecture. (After all, in a regular, healthy corporate network, Bring-Your-Own-Machine scenarios—where everyone is their own local administrator—are common without posing any threat.)
- cm2187 10y agoAssuming all machines on the network do not have the same local admin password.
- Nullabillity 10y agoThis is a privilege escalation bug that lets you reset the admin password, but it doesn't give you the old password.
- cmdrfred 10y agoYou might be able to get the hash via mimikatz.
- sammydavis 10y agoI want to block my young teen-aged son from hacking into his time-locked win 7 (soon win 10). He already searched the web and found some kind of system restore scheme to reset his password. Next step was to encrypt the hard drive to block rebooting without password.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoThis was the case in my high school. The domain administrator account had the same password as well. Good times.