Re: Detecting login/logout?
Re: Detecting login/logout?
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:06:07PM -0600, Steve Herman wrote:
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I've been asked to investigate implementing a "windows domain
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password reset utility" for use by folks that have forgotten their
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domain passwords (our Help Desk is inundated with password reset
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calls). A large part of this functionality has already been
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implemented on our Windows platforms so I'm playing catch up on the
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Mac platform.
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Right now it's not be critical that it display GUI at the login
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screen because the Mac users are logging into a local account and
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they could perform the reset by running the app while logged in
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locally... however our customers will most likely soon be
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authenticating against active directory in which case the user (who
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has forgotten his password) won't be able to get onto the machine and
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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.
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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
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