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Windows 2003 Administrator SID Is it still 500? Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   surreal 

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Posted 28 July 2005 - 01:04 AM

I have always known the default local administrator account to have a sid of 500. Under Win 2003 I can not seem to tell if this is true.

As in, in my 2003 builds I have always created a new user (as a member of the administrator group) and then set a difficult password for the administrator account and disabled it.

Is there any point in this? Or has the 500 SID identification gone?

By checking under the HKEY_USERS hive, I can not see any accounts that end with 500, only one that ends with 9057.

(I also disable anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts).

thanks heaps!


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Posted 28 July 2005 - 01:15 AM

Hmmm, dont think so they changed this... I will check at home and let you know, but I am almost sure you can still found "real" administrator by looking at RID 500

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