user accounts is missing

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I'm not sure how but some predecessor has removed user accounts from a
server. Does anyone know how it was removed and, more importantly, how it
can be restored?

Greg Brewer
 
Greg Brewer said:
I'm not sure how but some predecessor has removed user accounts from a
server. Does anyone know how it was removed and, more importantly, how it
can be restored?

Greg Brewer
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Log on as "administrator" so that you can see what
other accounts exist.
 
I am signing on as administrator. The important problem here is that there
appear to be other accounts on the computer but I don't know who uses them
or what the passwords are. Nor does anyone else in charge. My plan is to
change the passwords and see who calls to complain. But with the "user
accounts" missing, I can't do that.

Greg Brewer
 
Apparently someone with administrator or power user rights deleted the user accounts.
Your options are to restore the server from a backup that contains the user accounts
or recreate them with the understanding that creating a user account with the same
name as the old one will have a different user sid that the computer uses to track
user access which means that the new account will not have access to
permissions/rights assigned explicitly to the "old" user account. If you suspect
malicious activity, be sure to examine membership of the administrators and power
users groups and change passwords on the authorized members ASAP. --- Steve
 
There appears to be a misunderstanding. On the control panel, there is an
item label "user accounts". That is what is missing.

Greg
 
It may have been hidden via Group Policy which can be accessed via gpedit.msc on a
local computer. Try running lusrmgr.msc in the run box to see it that brings up the
local user/group mmc. --- Steve
 
You can see every user account from the Command Prompt
by executing this command:

net user

The command even shows you when each account was
last used!

You can change every password from the Command Prompt
by executing this command:

net user GBrewer xxyyzz

You can manage your user accounts from the Command Prompt
by launching compmgmt.msc, then opening "Local Users and Groups".

In other words, don't get too hung up on pretty GUIs. In most
cases there are several other ways of achieving the same thing.
 
I've always been a command line jockey. Used to call myself an edline power
user. lol These days, I have trouble finding documentation on command line
command. As a programmer, I considered it a serious shortcoming of windows
that my non-console application couldn't tell that it was being run from a
console command line with access to the console. I wanted to create
programs that would execute differently if run from the console. Can't
remember why anymore but it would have been cool.

Greg
 
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