[dba-Tech] Linked logins to Windows Server 2003

Jim,

OK...but that doesn't explain the apparent link between the accounts.
Different user names, different passwords.  But when I try to Disable
the guru's account, the owner's account can't log in.  Are we talking
some sort of aliasing here?

I didn't try to delete the account; I just changed the password and
then I thought I'd Disable it.  I'm content if I can't delete it.

Steve Erbach


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Hi Steve:
>
> The most you can do is change the password of the previous 'person of
> interest'. You can not delete the account. That is how Active-Directory
> works...so no one can screw with it. Ultimate security has its price.
>
> The only real way to change the account is to re-install. Been there done
> that.
>
> Sorry Steve.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 6:25 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Linked logins to Windows Server 2003
>
> Dear Group,
>
> The network "guru" that an old client of mine had hired to install his
> Windows Server 2003 Enterprise has taken himself out of the game.
> Suffice it to say that he's in trouble with the law and probably won't
> be returning.
>
> I've taken over as de facto network guy.  I have a horseback knowledge
> of Windows Server 2003 and I've learned a fair amount in the past two
> weeks.  But I ran into something odd regarding user accounts.
>
> The felon -- I mean the network guru -- had set up a user account for
> himself, of course.  I recently changed its password.  But I also
> tried to disable the account from the Active Directory Users and
> Computers application: Action | Disable.
>
> When I did that, however, the owner of the company could no longer log
> in.  When I re-enabled the felon's account, the owner could log back
> in.
>
> My question is: what kind of linking can there be between user
> accounts that would accomplish this kind of symbiosis or parasitic
> behavior?  I want to disable the guy's account but, apparently, I
> can't.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Erbach
> Neenah, WI