I ran into an interesting situation at work that has me puzzled. There are a bunch of people here that use screen savers on their XP machines to keep their screens private (very few of us have closed offices). So when they go to lunch they stay logged into a telnet session which, at times, I need to log them out of. If they’re at lunch and their screen savers come on (with XP systems) it requires their network password to unlock the PC. Now I hate to keep people’s network passwords for any reason, just goes against good security practices. But how can I let people secure their workstations without keeping them if I need to log them out of applications? I can log in as administrator but that logs the other user off the machine and ungracefully closes any open aps without properly logging them out of their telnet session which hangs. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
You can remotely stop the process using the Taskkill command, but this won’t properly log the person out.
You may just have to tell them to log out at lunchtime and boot them off if they forget. It’s not a good solution, but such is the life of a Windows admin.
Yeah, pretty much what I had thought. Thanks!