Windows 2003 Administrator SID

[surreal]

I have always known the default local administrator account to have a sid of 500. Under Win 2003 I can not seem to tell if this is true.

As in, in my 2003 builds I have always created a new user (as a member of the administrator group) and then set a difficult password for the administrator account and disabled it.

Is there any point in this? Or has the 500 SID identification gone?

By checking under the HKEY_USERS hive, I can not see any accounts that end with 500, only one that ends with 9057.

(I also disable anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts).

thanks heaps!

[Martin Zugec]

Hmmm, dont think so they changed this... I will check at home and let you know, but I am almost sure you can still found "real" administrator by looking at RID 500