Re: Unlock workstation without closing session
From: Seeker (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/13/04
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:03:41 -0500
There is the larger philosophical question; should the Administrator be
omnipotent and have 'total control' over any machine in his domain?
The current mechanism provides some protection to the user's data; if the
administrator could simply log in as the user then there would be no
privacy. It all depends on how you view the rights of individuals in your
work place. Where I work, we need to have the IS security team's permission
to look at confidential/personal data, and good cause must exist to allow
that. So if someone unlocks a 3rd party's machine, they better be able to
explain it!
On a more practical level, as a Domain Admin you should be able to connect
to the machine remotely and perform any maintenance that you may need to do.
Consider tools like SMS, ZenWorks or LanDesk, or good old Windows batch
files if the office is too small to justify an enterprise tool.
The bottom line is you may not impersonate as a user; you can kick him out
but unless you had his password, you couldn't log in as him. I would never
give my password to anyone, but that's just me.
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:194ae01c42199$1fc53fb0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> ideally, as an admin, you would have the password to the
> account so you can unlock it.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Unlock workstation without closing session
> >
> >For WinNT, Win2000, and WinXP, when a workstation is
> locked, nobody
> >but the person who locked that station (not even an
> admin) can
> >unlock the station. When an administator tries to unlock
> the station,
> >the session will close immediately shutting down all the
> applications
> >that are currently running on the system. This often
> poses a problem
> >for us. We often see yellow stickies asking people not
> to touch the
> >system. Shutting down someones system is simply not an
> option.
> >
> >This does not make any sense to me! This, in effect
> gives a regular
> >user more power than an administrator who should have
> absolute control
> >over the system.
> >
> >Ideally, as an administrator, I would like to be able to
> truely unlock the
> >system. That is, unlock the system without closing the
> session.
> >
> >Anyone know how or even if this is possible?
> >
> >Sue
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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