"Account" with * in front of it???

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In my Local Security Settings, Local Policies, User Rights Assignment, some
policies have a security setting with a long, numerical account starting with
an * (e.g., *1-1029-309039etc...). Why is this there, and will I mess up my
settings by trying to remove it?

Thanks,
jewels
 
jewels said:
In my Local Security Settings, Local Policies, User Rights Assignment,
some
policies have a security setting with a long, numerical account starting
with
an * (e.g., *1-1029-309039etc...). Why is this there, and will I mess up
my
settings by trying to remove it?
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When you double-click on a policy to show its own properties window, is the
asterisk still there? I'm wondering if it isn't simply truncating a long
group or username. Normally these policies assign privileges based on a
group, not a particular account. So I'm wondering if you have groups or
accounts that were defined under a different instance of Windows whose SIDs
are unknown under your current instance of Windows.
 
Yes, the asterisk is still there. This computer is brand new and has not
been attached to the Internet. I did put another hard drive in as a slave
temporarily to copy some files, etc. that I needed, and then removed the old
drive. I hate it when these unexplained items show up. Do you think I can
safely try to delete the "user" from the security settings?

Thanks,
Jewels
 
jewels said:
Yes, the asterisk is still there. This computer is brand new and has not
been attached to the Internet. I did put another hard drive in as a slave
temporarily to copy some files, etc. that I needed, and then removed the
old
drive. I hate it when these unexplained items show up. Do you think I
can
safely try to delete the "user" from the security settings?
Click to expand...


I wouldn't until after searching the registry on the numeric portion of the
string to see what other dependencies there were (assuming they aren't
listed in hashed registry key or data items).
 
What is the user right and what other user/groups are listed for that user
right? What is the full number/SID? --- Steve
 
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