Protecting Local Users and Groups?

[gilius]

This has a big red cross by it in the MMC snap-in. Any ideas which component(s) need to be enabled to protect it? It's not "secondary login" - at least not primarily.

Preset attached.

 

[gilius]

It's something under Network - beginning with the letter N

 

[gilius]

So far this works:
Network > Netlogon > Active Directory
System > Secondary login

But there's something else that is responsible for the "other user" box appearing on the logon screen.

 

[Kasual]

But there's something else that is responsible for the "other user" box appearing on the logon screen.

Did you selected Skip UserOOBE in autounattend page but didn't add/create another account?

 

[gilius]

That's right - only added administrator account - but there's no user entry box after creating a user under Local Users and Groups post-OOBE.

 

[Kasual]

I remember seeing that "Other user account" but probably the source is too slim, you can try "in steps" as I do, remove some components (crap) and make a backup, later remove unused components and make another backup an so on.

 

[gilius]

Yeah, the idea is to try to get the source as slim as possible without breaking the needed components. This issue is but a minor inconvenience as there's other ways around switching user.

 

[Kasual]

Try this:
Find the user name with net user in command prompt, than add the removal command (net username /delete) to the end of post setup.