NT AuthorityAuthenticated users

Hello

Is it recommended to delete the NT Authority\Authenticated users account
from the User group for security reasons?

Im running single computer no other networked computers with domain name. I
have no need for Remote assistance. Because if NT Authority\Authenticated
users is removed from the user group Remote assistance will not work.

Also the layout for the security tab for the drives are:

User name (Computer Name\Username)

will it affect current users who have the permissions to access drive ?

Uhm, no. It is not recommended to ever delete any built-in groups, ever. Not
that you could, but no, it is not.

If you are asking whether it is recommended to revoke that groups membership
in the Users group, no that is not recommended either, although some people
do. If you do, you need to make sure that all users are manually added to the
users group. Otherwise they can't do much.

The only difference between Users and Authenticated Users on a stand-alone
system is that the Guest account is a member of Users, if the Guest account
is enabled. It is not a member of Authenticated Users. On a domain computer
the Users group includes users from the computer domain, whereas the
Authenticated Users group, by virtue of being dynamic, also includes users
from any trusted domains. In other words, if you have a resource domain and
an account domain you would really want to leave the defaults in place. If
you don't know what resource and account domain means, you probably don't
have them and don't need to worry.

The defaults work, and they do not compromise security, so it is best to
leave them.

"Marbles" wrote:

> Hello
>
> Is it recommended to delete the NT Authority\Authenticated users account
> from the User group for security reasons?
>
> Im running single computer no other networked computers with domain name. I
> have no need for Remote assistance. Because if NT Authority\Authenticated
> users is removed from the user group Remote assistance will not work.
>
> Also the layout for the security tab for the drives are:
>
> User name (Computer Name\Username)
>
> will it affect current users who have the permissions to access drive ?