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RE: Automatically locking workstations


From: "Dale Smith" <d.l.smith () cqu edu au>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:07:13 +1000

You can do this with a group policy.

COMPUTER CONFIGURATION > WINDOWS SETTINGS > SECURITY SETTINGS > LOCAL
POLICIES > SECURITY OPTIONS> "AMOUNT OF IDLE TIME REQUIRED BEFORE
DISCONNECTING SESSION"

That should do it - it will not really do as it says, just lock the
workstation.

Dale

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Crape [mailto:matthew.crape () ofa on ca] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:39 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Automatically locking workstations


Greetings all,
 
    Please excuse me if this question has been asked before (I didn't
see it in the archives), but is there some sort of policy setting that I
can enable in a Win2k AD environment which automatically locks a
computer after a preset timed amount of inactivity? If failing that,
does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve something similar?
Thanks.
 
    Matt


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