Interactive Logon??????

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Exo

Hi,

I, Administrator, have logged into a user's computer as my
boss had authorized me to do so. However, this particular
user is very anal about someone logging into her computer
without letting her know....

If I logged in/out as Administrator, it's going to display
the last logged in user which Administrator and not her
username.

How can I eliminate that trace? What can i do to make sure
that her username always appears in the login field even
if after I logged in/out as Administrator on her system?

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks In Advance.

-Exo
 
What you are doing is authorized. Let her learn to live with it,
or address her concerns up her chain of management.
It is possible to shut off the display of the last logged in user.
There is no built-in way to alter what is shown when the display
is enabled. However, it is just a reg key value.
Changing this is not worth the effort as she will just learn to
examine other signs of login by accounts other than hers if
she is in fact as you describe.
 
Exo,

I think the key points here are
someone logging into her computer without letting her know
and
my boss had authorized me to do so.


As an administrator, and user - I would be annoyed if the PC system assigned
to me, and the content of which I would be held responsible was accessed
without my knowledge.

And - Does your boss have the appropriate authority to authorise you to
access that person's PC


(Privacy laws - both re the users personal data and responsibility, and
possibly a breach of criminal law depending on the work, and data that
person was dealing with on the PC)


I - would suggest a small amount of humble-pie would help the working
relationship -

An apology for not being able to warn her that you would need access due to
short notice, or out of 'office hours' working,

And mention that, while you only do what is needed, without examining the
data files,
if the data on her PC should be treated as secure and confidential then she
should remind her manager of that need, and have a separate caddy'd hard
drive installed so she can lock the data disk in a proper safe.
Alternatively if is her personal data - emails etc. she should be aware that
the company, (by law) needs to be able to certify that the data held, or
transmitted from/via/to company systems is not offensive, abusive or
libellous, etc. and has been secured on long term storage for possible
presentation in court.
To do that they need to examine the entire contents of any, and all the
company computer systems, regardless of their assignment conditions -
including being assigned solely for personal, and private use at a person's
home - If it's a company computer, then it's subject to the legal record
keeping, and disclosure requirements.

I think the points been laboured over enough - but

Keeping data on any PC is fraught with legal liabilities

James Button
 
Does your company have an Acceptable Use Policy in place?

If not write one or have one written for you, get all users to sign
agreement to it before giving them network/computer access and make sure
they have a hardcopy of it, and possibly a network softcopy of it too, a
warning banner on logon should also make reference to the processes and
procedures in the AUP. The AUP should state clearly and unambiguosly that
the company or their appointed representatives have the right to monitor all
information stored/processed/transmitted using company equipment for legal
and security reasons and that users cannot expect the personal or shared
file storage areas to be excluded from this.

If you have their agreement/sign-off to the AUP you can then hit them with
it when they screw up :-) (and they will).

Regards

Jonathan.
 
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