On 2010-12-13 Andrea Lee wrote: > A local admin is an admin on one system. The domain admin is an admin > on all systems in the domain, including mission critical Windows > servers. With temporary domain admin privs, the local admin could log > into the AD and change permissions / passwords for another user or > another user, thus getting full admin rights on all systems for a long > period of time. Can he? The OP isn't too clear about this, but it was my understanding, that the local admin can impersonate the cached domain account on the local machine, but not on the network. In which case your point about the domain admin being "bigger" from the domain perspective is true, but is also completely moot, as a local admin could only impersonate another account with local admin privileges. Which he can do anyway. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
