Account policies for individual user

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William

I have a stand-alone box that I do not want on the
network. It has a DSL connection. I have only two login
accounts setup on it, administration, and customer. I need
to lock down the customer account without locking down the
administration account. I wanted to create a separate
Policy set just for the customer but Windows XP will not
seem to allow to create new policies or to assign to a
user or group. It does not seem possible to create OU's in
windows XP so I seem to be lost how to lock down one
account but not the other. Any idea?
 
William said:
I have a stand-alone box that I do not want on the
network. It has a DSL connection. I have only two login
accounts setup on it, administration, and customer. I need
to lock down the customer account without locking down the
administration account.
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This is possible only for Windows XP machines running in a network
with domain server. In other environments, user restrictions are
valid for all users.
 
I have a stand-alone box that I do not want on the
network. It has a DSL connection. I have only two login
accounts setup on it, administration, and customer. I need
to lock down the customer account without locking down the
administration account. I wanted to create a separate
Policy set just for the customer but Windows XP will not
seem to allow to create new policies or to assign to a
user or group. It does not seem possible to create OU's in
windows XP so I seem to be lost how to lock down one
account but not the other. Any idea?
Click to expand...

XP Home or Pro?

Suggestion: Start by assigning the customer account to a particular group.
Home offers two groups: administrator and limited. Pro offers several types
that are not obvious in Control Panel> User Accounts but can be accessed
via Computer Management's Local Users and Groups.

The security policies of the different groups vary. Help and Support has a
description of each. Then if you need to, you can fine tune the customer
account using permissions.

If using Home, where you only have two groups to choose from, you may find
Doug Knox's tool useful:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
 
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