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Questions tagged [local-groups]

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Is "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" a user or a group?

In Windows the user System is displayed with the group symbol: . (Using the internal Win32 API LookupAccountSid also reveals that it seems to be a group SidTypeGroup.) On the other hand processes can run in the system context like in a user context.…
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Does Windows log when a local user account is created

I would like to know if windows remembers or logs(maybe event viewer) when a new user account is created then added to the administrators localgroup. Ex.. A network account user creates a local user on a machine called anonuser then adds it to the…
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Get-LocalGroupMember generates error for Administrators group

Following commands run on a Windows 10 VM that's joined to AzureAD: PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-LocalGroupMember -Group Administrators Get-LocalGroupMember : Failed to compare two elements in the array. At line:1 char:1 PS C:\Windows\system32>…
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Add domain group to local computer administrators command line

Is it possible to add domain group to local group via command line? I can add specific users or domain users, but not a group. I would prefer to stick with a command line, but vbscript might be okay. We are looking for a solution that doesn't…
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Default groups associated to a new local user (Windows 10.0.17763)

I'm working on a standalone Windows 10.0.17763 (no AD) C:\Windows\system32>systeminfo | findstr /B /C:"OS Name" /C:"OS Version" OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise N OS Version: 10.0.17763 N/A Build 17763 I'd…
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What is the Everyone built-in windows security group called in Portuguese?

I'm attempting to setup share permissions on a Brazilian server and wish to give Everyone read only access. However, the server's language is Brazilian (Portuguese), and it looks like the security groups' names have been translated. Does anyone…
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Effective Permissions in Windows Server 2008 R2

So I created a VHD for testing some permissions on a computer attached to a domain The VHD is mounted as E:\ Inside of E:\ I have created a folder called web (so e:\web) I right click on the web folder in E, go to Properties > Security > Advanced…
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Powershell; Delete users from computer by Get-LocalGroupMember

I'm trying to delete all users from the Group Users from the computer except the NT Authority accounts. I want to get the list of users from the Group Users, and use that list to delete the profiles from the computer. I'm not an PowerShell expert,…
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lusrmgr.msc shows no groups in Windows 10 Pro, even though they exist; crashes the OS when I try to add a new user

By mistake, I imported a ".reg" file that describes an alias for one of the groups (Remote Desktop Users) into the "HKLM\SAM\SAM\" branch of registry, with the file being in a different language from what my OS has all while it was unnecessary in…
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Remove "DOMAIN\domain Users" and add "DOMAIN\username" to Allow Log on Locally

I created a batch file to remove "domain\Domain Users" from the Allow Log On Locally local security policy and replace it with "domain\username". This works. This is my script: First, remove the unwanted group: C:\ntrights.exe -r…
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Should I have duplicate root users in my Users directory?

I think I may have duplicate root users on my system. I changed directories to /Users, then ran ls -la -e I get this returned: total 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 Aug 31 2012 . drwxrwxr-t 33 root admin 1190 Jun 22 15:53 .. -rw-r--r-- 1…
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Can you create a windows folder share using a local user group instead of a user to permit access?

Given I know how to set up a folder share on Windows 10 to allow [Everyone|Authenticated Users|specified users] access to a network share. I recently tried to define share access using a local group, "Users". This is not the obsolete and useless…
Kai
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Fine-tune local useracc in Windows to have admin set of permissions WITHOUT being part of built-in Admin group?

Making changes to specific registry parts requires admin rights REGARDLESS if you have permission to edit these keys or value set explicitly. This means that if I want to make some changes to a very specific set of keys under very specific username…
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Local Security Policy Cannot Change Security Level

Today when I was testing Local group policy I set security level disallow to Set as default Now the button is disable and I am unable to run any kind of executable in my pc. and see this message when run an executable Luckily I have opened…
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How can I generate a text list of users from a windows local user group

I am on Windows Server 2012, but I believe this applies to other windows versions. Under Control Panel -> Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups, I can right click a group and view properties to see a list of the group members. However copy…
Alan F
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