Multiple Users/Passwords to authenticate the same profile

[jpcaldwell]

I have 5 computers spread out in a showroom, and any one of them needs
to be accessible to any sales rep at any time. I want them to be locked
most of the time to avoid prying eyes and just have the reps type in
their password to run a transaction. For speed purposes I don't want to
make each rep log in and out each time because our sales software is
klunky and slow to load, but I also don't want to have a single shared
password for security reasons. In my ideal world I would be able to set
the profile to authenticate against a source that would allow a number
of different user/pwd combos (like using pGina to auth against our imap
server). Is this even a remote possibility, or should I get my head out
of the clouds?

 

[Guest]

MyLogon comes close to achieving this, although in its present form it uses a
single common password for screensaver or standby-locking. In order for the
user's personal password to be needed again, it requires the user to log-off.
Which is possibly not what you want as it would mean closing the database..

This might change in future releases, but not just yet!


Another approach I can think of is to use a bespoke screensaver to lock the
computer, where this screensaver either gets its password-list from an .ini
file, or else does a test-authentication against a specified server. I don't
know of any such on the market, but it shouldn't be too hard to code.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

There is no way native to Windows to do what you want, and no add-on that I
know of that will. I don't see what the problem with a shared login would
be under these circumstances.

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