topic Re: Limiting user logins in BackOffice Products

Limiting user logins

Adam Sommer — Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:44:26 GMT

Is there a way to limit what machines a user can login on. I've been looking at Policy Editor but it seems to only define the user's environment. What I want to do is only allow some users to login to certain machines and other users to login to all machines. Is there a way to do this with Backoffice?

Re: Limiting user logins

Artyom Voronchihin — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 06:59:07 GMT

Hello !
If you are using domain, you can limit machines from what user can login in the user's account on domain controller. For example in NT 4 domain run User Manager for Domains, go to user properties and click "Logon To" buttun. There you can set up to 8 workstations what user allowed login to.
If you are using workgroup or standalone machines, the only way to limit user access is using Local Policy on every machine. On NT 4.0 it located in "Policies" menu - "User Rigts" in user manager, on Win2000 it in "Control Panel" - "Administrative Tools" - "Local Security Policy" - "Local Policies" - User Rights Assignment".
Choose "Log on localy" policy and add there users or groups what allowed to use this machine. Unfortunately on Win9x you can not forbid a user to access a machine.

Re: Limiting user logins

Adam Sommer — Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:25:53 GMT

Thank you very much I'll give it a try.