I am the Administrator, can I log into any account using my admin pass?
I have several standard user accounts with passwords.. I don't want to remove their passwords or delete the accounts, just have access to them..
im intrested please explain does this work in domain? only local users?
and how does it work?
I mean you have logon screen user name and password field you can just enter password (leaving the user unchanged) from user in admins group and log on on to any user name? password and user mismatch is okay (if password from user in admins gruop) is that what are you saying?
Or maybe youre talking about access to other users private folders/files?
But question was about log in to user account, not opening files, am i wrong?
Is this for a domain based network? Or is this on a home network?
You can't log on as the user, you can only access their files.
Any user either local or domain will allow login only if the corresponding password is given. An administrator's password will not work for any other user. It works only for the administrator.
It is impossible to login to other user's account with administrator's account.
But an administrator can have access to other user's folders if the administrators group is added to the folder permissions.
If the user excludes all the folder's permissions except his own, then the administrator can not directly access these folders. The only way he can access these folders is by taking ownership and then adding himself to the folder permissions.
Is this on a work computer and do you have the other users' permission to login to their accounts? If you do, simply ask them for their passwords. Otherwise this sounds fishy.
This is my home computer..
Admin = parents
Standard Users = children
OK, so the original question is answered - the next question is why would you need or want to log into their accounts when you already have access to everything (file and registry-wise) on the system?
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