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Re: [Samba] rename Administrator account

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>Sure you can rename it. Being a member of the right groups decite what 
>an account can do.

>However, I don't understand how renaming the admin account improves the 
>security. For example, every domain user can easily find out who is a 
>member of the "Domain Admins" group:

>> dsquery group -name "Domain Admins" | dsget group -members
"CN=DomAdm,CN=Users,DC=samdom,DC=example,DC=com"

>Regards,
>Marc

Hi Marc,

 
I agree that is not the holy grail of security, but as an average user is not able to do a dsquery, it has some added value.

My customer asked me this, so I now I can tell him that it its possible,

 
cheers,

 
BC

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