Unable to update the hosts file

Question

I have applied some of the CIS CAT recommended group policy settings in Windows 2016 server. Later for one task I wanted to update hosts file but I was not able to perform it.

I have changed the folder permission and later I was able to update the hosts file, but I wanted to know which group policy is preventing Administrator user to update the hosts file of the server

Gone through the below link but no luck:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/user-account-control/user-account-control-group-policy-and-registry-key-settings#user-account-control-run-all-administrators-in-admin-approval-mode

Answer 1

See if this tutorial is useful:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/140970-reset-hosts-file-back-default-windows.html

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