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Re: Windows server 2003
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:42:00AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > These two accounts aren't actually new. XP already introduced them,
> > > called "Local Service" (S-1-5-19) and "Network Service" (S-1-5-20).
> >
> > Now that I will patch mkpasswd, should I add these two accounts as well
> > or does mkpasswd already output them with the local accounts?
>
> As most of these well-known SIDs, no. They have to be created manually
> as SYSTEM. We could add them but it doesn't make much sense so far.
OK, I'll pass. I had just looked up the code. The way mkpasswd is written
they would only be output on systems where they are defined (XP).
> > Do you know if they are member of Administrators? If not, what are their
> > groups?
>
> I don't think any of these accounts are actually member of any group.
> It's just the way access tokens are created so it looks like SYSTEM
> is member of admins. I didn't look into an access token of a process
> under any of the other well-known SIDs, though.
I just looked up MSDN. It says their privileges include those of Users
and Authenticated Users, which most probably means they are in those groups.
Pierre