Administrator account does not have rights

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Rebecca Owens

Hey there;

I needed to know if you guys have seen this problem
before. I have a 2000 server and the administrator
account has no rights to change anything. All of a sudden
this started happening. Is there a virus or something
that causes that? What can I do to fix it?

Thanks for all your help

Rebecca
 
I would say that could be a definite sign of a virus or hack. If you are talking
about an account that is a domain administrator, then check to see if the domain
admins group was removed from the local administrators group on the computer. I would
check membership of the local administrators group anyhow to make sure it looks right
and that the account you are trying is indeed in that group and not a regular account
renamed "administrator" which is commonly done. You could try to run secedit as
described in the link below to see if it fixes things, but you probably should
consider the server compromised unless you find a good explanation. If you have
auditing of logon events and account management enabled on servers, it can help
determine what happened in such situations assuming the security log had not been
erased which in itself would leave an event for. Also be sure to change all
administrator passwords on that server ASAP. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222
 
Thank you, I will take your advice and hopefully we have
not been breached too badly.

Thanks again.
-----Original Message-----
I would say that could be a definite sign of a virus or hack. If you are talking
about an account that is a domain administrator, then check to see if the domain
admins group was removed from the local administrators group on the computer. I would
check membership of the local administrators group anyhow to make sure it looks right
and that the account you are trying is indeed in that
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group and not a regular account
 
This sounds alot like what has happend to us. I will be looking at this
very closely too.
Thank you
Daryl Davis
 
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