Re: Detecting login/logout?
Re: Detecting login/logout?
- Subject: Re: Detecting login/logout?
- From: Steve Herman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:55:00 -0600
At 1:16 PM -0600 11/4/03, Nicholas Riley wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:06:07PM -0600, Steve Herman wrote:
I've been asked to investigate implementing a "windows domain
password reset utility" for use by folks that have forgotten their
domain passwords (our Help Desk is inundated with password reset
calls). A large part of this functionality has already been
implemented on our Windows platforms so I'm playing catch up on the
Mac platform.
Right now it's not be critical that it display GUI at the login
screen because the Mac users are logging into a local account and
they could perform the reset by running the app while logged in
locally... however our customers will most likely soon be
authenticating against active directory in which case the user (who
has forgotten his password) won't be able to get onto the machine and
needs to be able to initiate the reset from the login screen.
How about creating a local, restricted user account which runs the
password reset application as a login item? Then you could add some
text such as "please log in as 'reset' to reset your password" to the
login screen, which is a lot easier than trying to write a program
that coexists with it.
I suggested that... and that'll probably be my primary back-up plan.
At this point I'm trying to figure out if/how feasible it is to go
the other way... and as usual I've been asked to try to "make it work
like the Windows version does" (which runs on their logon screen)...
:^(
Steve
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