Microsoft® Windows® XP Networking and Security Inside Out: Also Covers Windows 2000

Chapter 4. Managing User Accounts and Passwords

Managing User Accounts for Security 82

Following Best Practices for Your Everyday Account 103

Using Passwords Effectively 108

Configuring the Logon Process for Security 122

In this chapter, we explain how to create and customize one of the basic building blocks of security in Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 2000: the user account. By carefully managing user accounts, you can increase your level of security dramatically by imposing restrictions and granting privileges to particular users or groups of users. This is a fundamental difference from how security is implemented in the Windows 9x family and in Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me). In these operating systems based on Windows 9x code, security—such ...