Any other way to give Admin rights to SPS Central Admin Pages?

Sharepoint Services Help states "You must be a member of the local
administrators group for the server computer or a member of the SharePoint
administrators group to view the Central Administration pages."

Is there no other way around this??? I work for a very large company and
manage the project server for our project managers. To add each and every
project manager to the local admin group on our project server seems a bit
excessive and a bit of a security risk. In addition, I'd have to walk
through fire in order to get a special domain group created specifically for
this SPS setup. Is there no other way to give admin rights to SPS Central
Admin pages?

Thanks

Mueller
Wed Dec 01 14:59:11 CST 2004

That is the only way I know how.

"SC" wrote:

> Sharepoint Services Help states "You must be a member of the local
> administrators group for the server computer or a member of the SharePoint
> administrators group to view the Central Administration pages."
>
> Is there no other way around this??? I work for a very large company and
> manage the project server for our project managers. To add each and every
> project manager to the local admin group on our project server seems a bit
> excessive and a bit of a security risk. In addition, I'd have to walk
> through fire in order to get a special domain group created specifically for
> this SPS setup. Is there no other way to give admin rights to SPS Central
> Admin pages?
>
> Thanks