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Local Login is denied - Administrator unable to log on interactively

Asked by: odraskovic

Hello,

today I made huge mistake. I denied "Logon locally" to all groups except Administrators.
This made that I can not login on my web server any more.

I have only one server (web server) and my question is how I can enable "Logon locally" ?
I do not want to install everything from beggining.

I did not denied access to "Everybody" group but it looks like that "administrator" account is
part of "Users" group.

I tried on my local computers (2x Win2K Prof.) to use NTRights and few times it worked and
then when I locked one of those computers I could not unlock it with NTRights because I started
to get error message ***Error*** OpenPolicy -1073610729 and now I am afraid that something like
this can happen to my Web server.

Two local computers can see each other and I can ping locked computer from unlocked one.
Also I noticed that when I start NTRights program that light on network card is blinking.

Can I use my notebook to unlock server by connecting ? What do I have to set on notebook in network
settings ? In what kind of connection they have to be (web server and notebook) ?

Is there possibility that I copy winnt\security\database\secedit.sdb file from some other Windows
2000 Server ? How I can get in prompt on locked computer to do this ?

As you can see I have a lot of questions but I do not know what to do and I do not want to reinstall
everything from beggining.

Thanks in advance.

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Answers

 

by: QuetzalPosted on 2003-07-06 at 08:02:43ID: 8863836

Have you logged on to the web server directly as a user in the Administrators group?  Anything you try to do from the network will fail.

 

by: oBdAPosted on 2003-07-06 at 08:05:41ID: 8863850

I'm assuming a workgroup here.
You should indeed be able to regain access to your web server using ntrights.exe.
On your notebook (or whatever machine you use for remote access), open a command prompt.
Map a share (for example C$ or IPC$) on your web server to establish a secure connection; use any account with administrative rights on the web server for that (the locked out account will do just fine):
net use x: \\WebServer\C$ /user:WebServer\Administrator

The user right you are looking for is "SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight" (note that this is case sensitive; and, no, I don't know why this right isn't displayed in ntrights.exe's help output; please note, too, that you have to *revoke* the right to be denied local access).
Now for each user/group you denied local access to, enter the following command (replacing "WebServer" with your server's name, of course):

ntrights -u WebServer\User/GroupName -m \\WebServer -r SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight

In case you revoked the "Log on Locally" right from any users/groups, grant them access again with

ntrights -u WebServer\User/GroupName -m \\WebServer +r SeInteractiveLogonRight

That should keep you going again.

 

by: Pc_IdiotPosted on 2003-07-06 at 10:42:45ID: 8864384

Hi odraskovic,

If all else fails (the above advice all doesn't work) I would advise that you use the windows 2000 server cd to perform a recovery of your system instead to see if it helps in this case.

Boot your system with the windows 2000 server cd, when prompted 3 options, just press enter first. Next, press F8 to agree with terms and conditions. Press R to start recovering your system.

 

by: wolfhPosted on 2003-07-06 at 23:46:55ID: 8867247

check out following link

http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/winnt/install.html

item 17

if you cannot logon to the system at all then remove harddisk, place into a firewire or usb external disk, and use another system that can modify ntfs drives to make the changes.

 

by: drno007Posted on 2003-07-07 at 01:13:00ID: 8867559

Install the windows 2003 Adminpak found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c16ae515-c8f4-47ef-a1e4-a8dcbacff8e3&DisplayLang=en

Then open the correct .mmc and connect to your  server and change back to allow local login.

Hope this helps.

 

by: JSunnPosted on 2003-07-21 at 08:15:58ID: 8968164

The only way I've been able to fix this problem is through the recovery console.

 

by: paullamhkgPosted on 2003-10-06 at 23:11:09ID: 9503523

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