RE: strange account in Win2k

From: Mark Fagan (Mark.Faganat_private)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 02:23:25 PDT

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    All,
    
    Many thanks for the assistance in clearing this up. The issue was indeed
    with a changed SID to the server due to imaged installs.
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Dan Cuthbert [mailto:dcuthbertat_private]
    Sent: 28 May 2002 17:59
    To: Mark Fagan
    Cc: incidentsat_private
    Subject: Re: strange account in Win2k
    
    
    Is this machine part of a Domain? if so that is normally the domain acc
    
    
    
    * Mark Fagan (Mark.Faganat_private) Tapped away:
    > While setting additional privileges on a Win2k webserver  I noticed that
    > certain privileges (logon as batch job, act as part of o/s, logon locally
    > and network) were applied to a very strange account -
    > *S-1-5-21-527237240-162531612-725345543-1008 which is not seen as a user
    > account. Any ideas folks ?
    > 
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