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Built-In NTW Groups
Windows NT Workstation has five built-in groups added as part of the installation process. You can utilize these built-in groups to give users certain rights and abilities on the Windows NT system. These groups are as follows:
When administering user accounts and assigning user rights, it is typically easier to assign rights to a group rather than to an individual. Table 1.1. identifies and explains the default rights initially assigned to users or groups on a Windows NT workstation.

Table 1.1 lists the definition of what each default user right enables a user to do. You can use the existing groups on Windows NT Workstation to give a user the ability to perform any of these tasks, or you can add that user’s account to the list of accounts with permissions (see Figure 1.5).

When trying to determine whether to add a particular user account to the list of default user rights or to just add the user to an existing Windows NT Workstation group that has that right, it is helpful to know which groups are assigned certain rights by default. Table 1.2 shows this.

In addition to these default user rights, Windows NT also has built-in user capabilities. You cannot modify these built-in capabilities. The only way to give a user one of these abilities is to put that user in a group that has the capability. If you want to give a user the right to create and manage user accounts on a Windows NT workstation, for example, you must put that user into either the Power Users or the Administrators group to give him that ability. Table 1.3 lists the built-in capabilities on Windows NT Workstation.

These built-in user rights on Windows NT Workstation are important in understanding how to give users access to perform certain tasks on the system.

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