I am using WEBeX for an application. The application risides on a Windows 2003 server. How do I grant Domain users logon access to Windows 2003 Domain controller, because before the application opens a logon prompt appears?
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I don't believe lauraehuntermvp is correct here. http://www.petri.co.il/log
"You can give logon rights without provided domain admin rights."
You can, true, but it is merely "security theater". If you allow logon locally to a DC, it is trivial for a user to elevate their privileges to local administrator, and a local administrator on a DC is also known as a Domain Admin. Domain Controllers are the keys to the Active Directory kingdom, and access to them should be controlled as such.
All that was asked was how to allow users to log on to domain controllers - theres nothing here about giving admin rights.
Allowing a user the right to "log on locally" does not give them local admin rights on the box - Im sure with enough knowledge you could compromise the server and elevate permissions - but with enough knowledge you could probably compromise the system without that particular right.
Of course you should really run your apps on member servers - but I understand sometimes you dont always have control over that :)
> "Allowing a user the right to "log on locally" does not give them local admin rights on the box
See above, in re: "security theater"
> Im sure with enough knowledge you could compromise the server and elevate permissions - but with enough knowledge you could probably compromise the system without that particular right."
My point is that granting a user log on locally to a DC takes the effort needed to perform that particular escalation of privilege attack and renders it utterly trivial (thus "security theater"), and I for one don't make security decisions on the basis of "my users couldn't possibly figure out how to do that."
Anyone who cares about the security of their Active Directory environment would not allow anyone but a DA/EA to log on locally to a domain controller, full stop. Given the increased proliferation of virtualization technology (much of it free), there's no reason not to move an app off to a member server, even if that member server happens to be a VM.
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by: richy92Posted on 2007-09-13 at 08:56:03ID: 19884767
If Im reading this correctly - I believe you need to grant the log on locally right to the server (which Im pretty sure domain users dont have).
You can do this through group poilcy or local security settings - its under user rights - allow logon locally
I think that normal servers grant this right to domain users by default - but if I remember correctly domain controllers have this right removed for security.
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