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Change Computer Owner on SDE

nsg1974

How can you change the owner of a computer in Sophos Disk Encryption?  The first user to logon becomes the owner, but what happens when this user leaves and the laptop is passed on?  Can you change the owner without reinstalling SDE? 

The user help refers to the first user to login becoming the owner as the "default setting" and that "the security officer can also define the owner of a computer via a policy setting".  I can't find anything relevant in any of the SDE policies.  Does anyone know if this is possible or if (as I suspect ) the help refers to features in the full Safeguard Enterprise product and hasn't been updated for SDE?

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    Actually I found that there is an Owner setting in SGE DE 6.0; the method to change the owner that seems to work is thus:

    1) Boot the computer, get through PoA either using Recovery, or have a user who has a certificate on the computer login with the "Passthrough to Windows" unchecked

    2) Have the user you want to be the owner login at the Windows prompt (this assumes domain network connection of course)

    3) Synchronize the SGE client

    4) Under the SGE Management console, go to Users and Computers and navigate through the AD tree to the computer itself, and click on it

    5) On the right side you will see tabs for Inventory, RSOP and Users. Select this Users tab. You can now drag a user from the right of this pane (under Available Users) into it and Check/Uncheck the "User is Owner" box.

    6) Save when you're done.

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    Actually I found that there is an Owner setting in SGE DE 6.0; the method to change the owner that seems to work is thus:

    1) Boot the computer, get through PoA either using Recovery, or have a user who has a certificate on the computer login with the "Passthrough to Windows" unchecked

    2) Have the user you want to be the owner login at the Windows prompt (this assumes domain network connection of course)

    3) Synchronize the SGE client

    4) Under the SGE Management console, go to Users and Computers and navigate through the AD tree to the computer itself, and click on it

    5) On the right side you will see tabs for Inventory, RSOP and Users. Select this Users tab. You can now drag a user from the right of this pane (under Available Users) into it and Check/Uncheck the "User is Owner" box.

    6) Save when you're done.

    :35687
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