RE: Password Protected Screen Saver and Administrative Password

From: Thaddeus McNamara (tk_at_coast-radio.com)
Date: 02/09/05

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    Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:10:43 -0800
To: "Tyson Leslie" <Leslie.Tyson@colteng.com>

    Let's see if I get what you're saying:

    1) You want the third-party support to have admin rights when they
    are logged in.
    2) You don't want to give the admin password to the 3rd party
    support.
    2) They first need to unlock the server by using the admin
    password.
    3) You aren't always available on-site to unlock it for them.
    4) You don't want to give the admin password to a regular user who
    may be available on-site. (naturally!)

    ...is that correct?

    If that is correct, my suggestions are:

    1) Don't leave the admin logged in & locked. Always log off, and
    cover yourself with a utility that will automatically log off (not lock)
    after a certain amount of time.
    2) Create another admin login, restricted to only that machine,
    with NO LOGON HOURS. Then the 3rd party support has to contact you
    before they need to access the unit, with enough time for you to enable
    the account.

    HTH
    Thadd McNamara
    IT Director
    Coast Radio Co., Inc.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Tyson Leslie [mailto:Leslie.Tyson@colteng.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:23 PM
    To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    Subject: RE: Password Protected Screen Saver and Administrative Password

    You are giving them access to use the server with an administrator
    logged in, but you won't tell them the administrator password?

    Is that correct? Or, is the server not logged in, and they need to log
    into it?

            Tyson.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Tom Milliner [mailto:tom.milliner@verizon.net]
    Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 8:07 PM
    To: tom.milliner@verizon.net; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Password Protected Screen Saver and Administrative Password

     
     
    Does someone know a way to allow a normal user to release a server
    password protected screen-saver without giving the user the
    administrator password?

    I need this so that third-party support can access our server via
    GoToMyPC when I am not there. The password protected screen-saver
    blocks them from remote access to fix problems. I cannot always be
    on-site to assist by supplying the screen-saver password.

     
    Tom Milliner, CPA, MCSE
    tom.milliner@verizon.net

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