Allowing a Normal User to Shutdown Domain Controller/Server
- Ankur Desa
- Apr 20, 2016
- 1 min read
# Allowing Normal User to Login into Domain Controller and Shutdown interactively
Open The Group Policy Managment Console
Choose Default Domain Controller Polcy - Domain Controllers which is under your domain-Domain -Forests
Right click on Default Domain Controller Policy and choose Edit
Under Computer Configuration - Polices - Windows Settings - Security Settings -> Local Policies - User Rights Assignments - Choose the following two options and add the normal user whom you want to:
1.Allow Log on Locally
2. Shutdown The System
Select these and choose Add User/Group and choose the restricted user we created
And now's time to check whether user can login and shutdown . Pls note your server will be shutdown and services will be disrupted so be careful when you test
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