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Urgent - Q about user accounts!
Name: Alex2002 Date: October 11, 2003 at 13:19:55 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: 1600XP
Comment:
Was just clicking through the User Accounts (in control panel) screen from the main account everyone uses on the machine. I clicked onto my account from there (seperate account to eh 'main' one) and there was an option to remove my password! And this being from another account. I clicked it and it said that my account would lose all encrypted files, etc etc. and there was another "Remove password button" - i didn't click it because I wasnt sure how I would get a password back, but if someone was to attempt to remove my password to my account from the main account that everyone uses, could they do so and then just log in to my account?! Surely it should (and maybe does) ask for my password to verify it's me, in case someone else tries to remove it?
Hope im making enough sense for someone to help, thanks for any info!
Name: doc Date: October 11, 2003 at 13:23:10 Pacific
Reply:
Yes if you choose to remove it will ask for your old password before it will let you change it.
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Response Number 2
Name: Alex2002 Date: October 11, 2003 at 13:26:55 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, thanks for the almost instant response.
Cheers
Alex
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Response Number 3
Name: Alex2002 Date: October 11, 2003 at 13:34:37 Pacific
Reply:
Just a quick message but I thought now i would try and remove my password from anothe account, because a password box should come up as verification, but I clicked it and it just removed the password from the account...
I then had to create password again. Why's this happening? it's not secure at all.
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Response Number 4
Name: sacramentio Date: October 11, 2003 at 15:24:48 Pacific
Reply:
because you have not set permission for user who , what, where, when
Let give them a restrict and you will get back your secure.
Remember: Only Administrator and power user can make any system change
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