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Re: How to become root/root (0/0)

On 09.05.2019 15:09, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Henning!
> 
>> And the group "None". I found it mentioned in ntsec. Would it be
>> possible to create a group "root" in Windows which gives it's
>> members the same power as the group Administrators? And why "None"
>> and not "Administrators"?
> 
> Administrators do not have all possible permissions inherently.
> Again, there's simply no equivalent of "god user" from *NIX in Windows
> permissions system.

IIRC, the SYSTEM user has the most permissions, but users are normally
forbidden from doing things as SYSTEM.

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