A renamed administrator account does not function as a trusted user with Application Control

Technical Articles ID: KB75934
Last Modified: 12/12/2019

McAfee Application and Change Control (MACC) 6.x.x, 5.x.x

If you rename an Administrator account and add it as a trusted user, it does not work as a MACC trusted user over the endpoint.

You can't apply the MACC trusted user privilege to a renamed Microsoft Windows Administrator account.

Renamed built-in Administrator account using system policies.

Reboot the system. After the reboot, the new account name will act as an Updater.

Application and Change Control 6.1 (EOL)
Application and Change Control 5.1 (EOL)

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