Thanks Don,

You don't know how much this has de-stressed me. I'm now in exactly the same position you were in 7 years ago. I recently quit my job, bag of poop that it was, in order to try my hand at pen testing but without a role to step into. I just started to give up hope of anyone taking me on, due to the catch 22 of experience needed/getting experience... but to hear someone has been down this exact road before and come out of it sucessful and respected fills me with hope.

Thanks again.


Chan

If it's an AD domain you're wanting to do this in could you not set security on an OU to limit read on that, create a new group in it and add your users to that group, and the group to admins?

Might test this out when I get a spare min.