RE: Automatically locking workstations

From: Nick Duda (nduda_at_VistaPrint.com)
Date: 10/09/03

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To: "Matthew Crape" <matthew.crape@ofa.on.ca>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>

    AD Group policy allows you to force a logout after x amount of time, or
    you can enforce a screensaver , with passwords if you choose, or the
    logon password. However this method is not looked upon well as it can be
    more of a pain then good.

    - Nick

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Matthew Crape [mailto:matthew.crape@ofa.on.ca]
    Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 3:39 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Automatically locking workstations

    Greetings all,
     
        Please excuse me if this question has been asked before (I didn't
    see it
    in the archives), but is there some sort of policy setting that I can
    enable
    in a Win2k AD environment which automatically locks a computer after a
    preset timed amount of inactivity? If failing that, does anyone have any
    suggestions on how to achieve something similar? Thanks.
     
        Matt

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