Re: privilege timeout

From: Ryan Hanisco (rhanisco_at_flagshipis.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:34:23 -0600

What you are trying to do is duplicate the functionality of a security or
document management system. You can't expect the OS to do absolutely
everything. You'll either need to write a program or invest in a DMS. 

-- 
Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCDBA
Flagship Integration Services
"Doug Frisk" <PublicNews@removeme.fazwak.com> wrote in message
news:%23B5keod7EHA.1292@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> "Chris" <Chris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FF2890B6-A2A3-4D7A-9419-C48EFA35B647@microsoft.com...
> >I am trying to configure a handful of Windows file servers to timeout
user
> > connections (like mapped drives) after a certain amount of idle time and
> > make
> > the user reauthenticate after that time is up. This is trying to
mitigate
> > the
> > problem where a user authenticates to a sensitive file server and then
> > walks
> > away from the computer.  I do not want to have their computer
> > automatically
> > lock itself...I just want that session to the sensitive file server to
> > timeout and require reauthentication.
>
> I see no point in what you're attempting to accomplish.  You can tweak the
> TCP parameters to cause the TCP session to time out, but when someone
> *anyone* sits down at the client and attempts to access that timed out
> session, the client will transparently reconnect using the same
credentials
> it had.
>
> Yes, *at the server* the client will be re-authenticated, but at the
client
> the cached credential information is still there.
>
>
>

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