Re: WinNT/2000 screen saver with password and Logoff?

From: David Matten (david@spambitbucket.xyris.com)
Date: 08/20/02 

From: "David Matten" <david@spambitbucket.xyris.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:12:03 GMT

"Mark H. Wood" <mwood@mhw.ULib.IUPUI.Edu> wrote in message
news:ajr7sm$plp$2@wilson.uits.indiana.edu...
> In comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Bruce Chambers
<bchambers@nospam.cableone.net> wrote:
> > I'm not aware of anyway to grant "unlock" privileges to anyone but
> > administrators.
>
> Not what the OP is asking for; he wants "this bozo locked a public
> workstation and then went to lunch, so let me close out his session
> and use the station" privileges. This would not grant user B any
> access to user A's stuff; it properly protects user A's stuff by
> logging him off before user B logs on, just as one would expect.
>
> Maybe it would be easier to disallow locking in the first place?

Simpler, yes, easier, no, and moreover, not what the peeps want. I am at
least obligated to look.
Perhaps I can write my own. I haven't looked at the Screen Saver APIs.
Anyone know if I could add an extra dialog to a blank saver myself which
then makes a logout system call?

> Depending on your NT version, there's a policy that can do that.
> Someone will be unhappy no matter what you do, but as you increase the
> complexity of the "solution" your head hurts more. The simplest way
> to break a lock is to ensure that nobody can take the lock to begin
> with.
>
> --
> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
> MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".

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