Re: HOW DO I IMMEDIATELY FREEZE AN ACCOUNT?

From: JohnB (jbrigan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/15/03 

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:53:31 -0400

If you have managed switches on your network, disable his port.

"Dorius Bildigdo" <vrising@go.com> wrote in message
news:ffd1aeff.0308151338.8b84851@posting.google.com...
> We are firing someone and 10 minutes before it happens, I need to
> immediately freeze all his account access. DISABLING AN ACCOUNT DOES
> NOT WORK! If he is already logged in, he will have access AFTER his
> account is disabled. I don't understand this. if we have 1000's of
> machines, he could be logged into a machine in some corner office
> somewhere and after he is fired still have access.
>
> i need a way to immediately BAN him from the network in about 10
> minutes. HOW DO I DO THIS?
>
> its a windows 2000 network.

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