#WINDOWS POWERSHELL ADMIN WINDOWS#

When Powershell can save your day!Īfter a couple of years I’ve started to like Windows UAC ( User Account Control), at least one good thing about Windows Vista, right?Įspecially for the educational effect of showing to the end user if the operation they are running can potentially change the configuration of their machine. LAPS is extremely valuable if you’re using AD is one of the best ways control local admin credential and mitigate risk of lateral movement with a fast privilege escalation. A possible solution for manage local admin credential is LAPS.

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Using the same local administrator credential as part of a OSD (Operating System Deployment) or part of manual installation in case it’s in general bad idea, but should be fixed as soon as possible. Is there a local administrator shared between different machines? Use LAPS! Net localgroup administrators mylocaladmin / add Using Ansible (requires WinRM on the computer) you add to playbook the command to add a local user using a module called win_user.

Using a Configuration Manager ( Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, Boxstarter, etc.)/ Automation Tool.Į.g.

Using Windows Admin Center (project honolulu), with a similar approach of MMC via a web interface in a workgroup or domain environment is a good solution providing a single and secure single point of management for your machines.

You can create/test/deploy a Group Policy Object to a specific computer/machine and add the user or the security group automatically. Happy days! By default domain admins are member of the local administrators group so you can add quickly all the users or security groups needed! If all of most of the machines that you need to manage are all domain joined.

From the Windows Menu – Search “USERS” and following the GUI to edit “Edit local users and groups”(usually opens lusrmgr.msc).

the second is add that new user to the administrators group.Īre there any alternative to MMC for creating a local user?.

the first obvious step is creating a dedicated user.

The most consistent interface for a Windows OS is Microsoft Management Console (MMC.exe) can load the Local User and Group Management Snapin (lusrmgr.msc) on a local or remote machine with a basic and intuitive GUI.

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How To Create a local admin with PowerShell.Is there a local administrator shared between different machines? Use LAPS!.Are there any alternative to MMC for creating a local user?.it’s like to let them run with the scissors all the time… is it worthy or simply asking for trouble? Nothing new if you’re familiar with the least privilege access, if is something you’ve never think about it… Well, I can use a simple effective analogy for allowing user with local admin rights on their workstation. It doesn’t matter if most of the today’s threats can deal with the regular user context. Using separate users: a standard one and an admin member of the local administrators group is at least a good way to mitigate the risk of potential/malicious/accidental damage to the system. Domain Users) should not be a member of the local administrators group for a security point of view. Indeed, Windows OS doesn’t have a simple and neat management like a SUDO on Linux OS, but settings need to be tailored with GPO or at least with different users.

If not well designed or managed, User and Administrator privilege separation for users/system administrators on a Windows OS can be painful for both sides.

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