RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Sep, Dave Korn wrote: >Your policy is that the *domain user account* for a user has *local* > administrative rights over that user's own pc. True. I stand corrected. >Your policy could not conceivably under any circumstances be to give every > user domain admin group membershi

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Luke Kendall >Sent: 06 September 2005 04:57 > Our policy is that for their PC, users have administrator rights in the > network domain, so they can install and uninstall software. No. Your policy is that the *domain user account* for a user has *local* admini

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-05 Thread Herb Martin
> > I think you have an extra s in the user name :-) (I have an > > Administrator user, but no Administrators user). > > Can someone correct my understanding if I've got this wrong? > I think "Administrator" means the administrator account on > the local machine, "Administrators" means the a

Re: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-05 Thread Luke Kendall
On 6 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski replied to: > > Can someone correct my understanding if I've got this wrong? I think > > "Administrator" means the administrator account on the local machine, > > "Administrators" means the administrative account for the machine in the > > domain (workgroup). >

Re: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: > Our policy is that for their PC, users have administrator rights in the > network domain, so they can install and uninstall software. > > I had someone report this error today from a script I'd written: > > On 6 Sep, Iain Templeton wrote: > > Replaci

Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-05 Thread Luke Kendall
Our policy is that for their PC, users have administrator rights in the network domain, so they can install and uninstall software. I had someone report this error today from a script I'd written: On 6 Sep, Iain Templeton wrote: > Replacing /bin/shell.exe with newer one from //handel/d/cygn