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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Security and Administration / August 2005Safe mode
Is there a way to block safe mode menu in XP Home Edition? Need to block this back door to prevent any user using emergency admin access. > Is there a way to block safe mode menu in XP Home Edition? > Need to block this back door to prevent any user using emergency admin > access. Why don't you simply put a password on the default account?  SignatureMike Pawlak Lil' Dave, You can set up an administrator password in the bios, and XP won' start to load until you give it the password. Of course if you forget the password, your close to being screwed. Best, Treema -- Treema If were my PC, no problem. But doing this for a PC owner who is very hands off to any kind of maintenance. She has admin access under her account, the remaining all have user accounts. Have reason to believe one of the users is backdooring the default admin account in safe mode. In an Award bios, one has to setup a password for system, and a password for bios setup entry. One for the system prevents the bios seeking the system for boot media. The other is needed to prevent changing the system password. > Lil' Dave, > You can set up an administrator password in the bios, and XP won't > start to load until you give it the password. > Of course if you forget the password, your close to being screwed. > Best, > Treeman > *Is there a way to block safe mode menu in XP Home Edition? > Need to block this back door to prevent any user using emergency > admin > access. * Hi The easiest (& probably the only) way would be to assign a STRONG password to the account, tip, make the password different to the regular admin password. Regards CReWdog -- CReWdog "" wrote: > Is there a way to block safe mode menu in XP Home Edition? > Need to block this back door to prevent any user using > emergency admin > access. Couldnt you just put a password on the administrator acount? SignaturePosted using the http://www.windowsforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.windowsforumz.com/Security-Admin-Safe-mode-ftopict414776.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.windowsforumz.com/eform.php?p=1381934 > Is there a way to block safe mode menu in XP Home Edition? > Need to block this back door to prevent any user using emergency admin > access. No you can't block Safe Mode. If you don't want users accessing the built-in Administrator account, why don't you just set a strong password on it? SignatureBruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH > > Is there a way to block safe mode menu in XP Home Edition? > > Need to block this back door to prevent any user using emergency admin [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > built-in Administrator account, why don't you just set a strong password > on it? Because that's the purpose of the default administrator account having no password. Emergency administrator access. Well, apparently, no one has a method to prevent user access to safe mode in XP Home Edition.. > Because that's the purpose of the default administrator account having no > password. Emergency administrator access. > > Well, apparently, no one has a method to prevent user access to safe mode in > XP Home Edition.. The purpose of the default administrator account is NOT to have no password on it!!! The purpose of it is to have an administrator account that CANNOT BE DELETED, to ensure administrative access to the PC. This DOES NOT MEAN that the account should not have a password. SignatureThe reader should exercise normal caution and backup the Registry and data files regularly, and especially before making any changes to their PC, as well as performing regular virus and spyware scans. I am not liable for problems or mishaps that occur from the reader using advice posted here. No warranty, express or implied, is given with the posting of this message. > Because that's the purpose of the default administrator account having no > password. No it isn't. Where'd you ever hear such a silly thing? The standard security practice is to rename it, set a strong password on it and use it only to create another account for regular use, reserving the Administrator account as a "back door" in case something corrupts your regular account(s). > Emergency administrator access. How's setting a password preclude this? > Well, apparently, no one has a method to prevent user access to safe mode in > XP Home Edition.. Yes, there is such a method, built-in. It's called a password. SignatureBruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - RAH |
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