RE: User Log off

From: Holger Schaal (schaal@uni-mainz.de)
Date: 05/15/02 

Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 09:43:46 +0200
From: "Holger Schaal" <schaal@uni-mainz.de>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>

Hi Tim,

there is a screensaver in the windows 2000 resource kit, called winexit
- with this "screensaver" users are automatically logged off after a
certain amount of time of inactivity. The configuration settings are
stored in the HKCU part of the registry - and can be set with group
policies.

Greetings

Holger 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim V(@DZ) [mailto:iceburn@dangerzone.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:20 PM
> To: security-basics@security-focus.com
> Subject: User Log off
> 
> 
> Does anyone know of group policies, software, configurations that will
> automatically log a user off after a specific amount of time?
> 
> Basically, people staying logged in is bad for a whole slew of privacy
> and security reasons (as you all know).  My users seem to have trouble
> understanding this.  I know I can set a Windows 2000 Group Policy for
> "logout automatically" and "time to terminate session" or 
> something like
> that, but I'm pretty sure that only applies to terminal services
> clients.  I searched the web for a while and came up with 12Ghosts
> Shutdown which is a small app that "overloads" the shutdown of Windows
> and among other things has a inactivity timer.  However, in testing,
> having picky programs (like Outlook 2002) open will 
> effectively not let
> 12Ghosts log the user out.
> 
> Has anyone else solved this issue with some sort of technology, I'm
> wearing thin on user eduacation right now...
> 
> 
>  -tim
> 
> PS I suppose I should let everyone know that the network is completely
> Windows 2000.
> 
>

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