Greetings, renaud.rol...@giraudbtp.com! >> Please remove /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. They are no longer >> necessary, unless you have some very special needs, and even then, they >> only needed for that one or two accounts you need special treatment for.
> They dont exists. Then my next guess is that you'll have to reestablish your trust with `passwd -R`. There's not many places where and what can be "saved" :) >> The main security concern is, why your Administrator user: >> 1. have password, and >> 2. is not disabled? > Why would i disable Administrator, it's the only local account, the server > isn't in any domain and without password it doesn't seem secure at all. Create a different local account, with necessary password and permissions, then reset password on local Administrator account and disable it. As for why, Administrator is the only local account with super-user permissions that is guaranteed to exist. Windows uses it in case something gone REALLY wrong, such as AD database recovery procedures. It is easy enough to enable a locked account with offline tools, if your system gone into such disrepair, that you can no longer even boot it, and need a LiveCD to login to local SAM environment. But recovering a lost Administrator password is a nontrivial endeavor, and chances to brind system into a working state without complete reinstall are diminishing rather quick. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, March 14, 2019 17:49:16 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
