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Skriven 2005-08-19 15:57:26 av August Abolins (1:229/2000)
  Kommentar till text 10487 av Miles Maxted (3:772/1.0)
Ärende: W2K + LSA
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"Miles Maxted -> All" <3:772/1> wrote..

 MM> ....t'other day I stupidly asked for updates to my 2000
 MM> Prof,  and was firmly told that I needed a "Windows Genuine
 MM> Advantage Validation Tool" of enormous size (.9gig ?) to install
 MM> the updates.


Interesting... I thought that WGAVT was only applicable to XP versions.


 MM> Running Spybot and Sting found me something called LSA that Spybot
 MM> promptly killed for me.
 MM> In the meantime,  this LSA reappeared for Spybot to kill again.
 MM> Please,  should I now put an axe through this box and head into
 MM> LinuxLand or can I fix all this myself ?

According to XP REsource centre...

"In Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional, a user's credentials can be
supplied by a password, a Kerberos ticket, or a smart card. ...

Validation - Validation in Windows is performed by a protected subsystem
called the Local Security Authority (LSA), which maintains information about
all aspects of local operating system security. In addition to providing
interactive user authentication services, the LSA does the following:

- Manages local security policy.
- Manages audit policy and settings.
 - Generates tokens that contain user and group information as well as
information about the security permissions for the user.

The LSA validates your identity based on which entity issued your account.
If it was issued by:

LSA.  - The LSA can validate your information by checking its own Security
Accounts Manager (SAM) database. Any workstation or member server can store
local user accounts and information about local groups. However, these
accounts can only be used for accessing that workstation or computer.

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