full-disclosure - Undeletable user account.

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Date: Tue Jan  3 23:29:22 2006
From: requiem at praetor.org (Jeremy Bishop)
Subject: Undeletable user account.

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 13:54, James Bower wrote:
> Hi all, one of my servers has recently been compromised.  No suprise
> but the hacker created himself a user account.  The problem is that I
> can't seem to delete the account.  The account is not part of any

To be entirely snippy, the problem isn't the undeletable account.  That 
falls into the "amusing puzzle" category.  The problem is that you are 
attempting to clean up the machine instead of rebuilding from 
known-good media.

I'm sure you have a very good reason for doing this, and I'm just making 
the assumption that the Windows culture has less awareness that this is 
generally a Bad Idea.

As for the user account, I suspect that it can be deleted in much the 
same way one would go about deleting the local administrator account.  
Have a link: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/7/4/7570/05276

Jeremy

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