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Local Administrator vs. Local Account with Administrative Privledges

Subject: Local Administrator vs. Local Account with Administrative Privledges
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:02:42 -0700
Hello,

I have been scanning 2 Windows 2000 hosts in a test environment recently and 
noticed that when I supply credentials for the local "Administrator" account I 
get very limited results (known holes that are on the machine do not show up on 
the report for the scan).  However, if I then create a user on the machines 
with administrative privledges (ie in the administrator group) and use those 
credentials I get the expected results from the scan.

Is it not possible to actually use the local "Administrator" account with 
Nessus?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Beau Nuanes
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