Barcoding login

[Asher_N]

I'm in a retail environment requires a single user ID at the POS
terminal. There is quite a turnover of staff requiring regular password
change. Because communication between staff is not always perfect and
both Head Office and a third party support organization also need to know
the passwords, having the users change their own password is not
feasible. My environment also dictates that I do not show the logged on
user.

I want to issue barcoded cards to my store personel to automate the login
process. The barcode readers are hard wired to append a <enter> sequence
after every field ( a requirement of the POS aplpication). So I want to
barcode both the user ID and password as a single string.

Sounds simple, I created a barcode containing the following sequence:
UserID <tab> password.

When I scan it in wordpad, it works perfectly. However, the logon prompt
ignores the <tab> and puts UserIDPasssword as a single string in the User
ID field.

Does anybody know how to force the cursor to move from the UserID to
Password automatically?

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I'm in a retail environment requires a single user ID at the POS
terminal. There is quite a turnover of staff requiring regular password
change. Because communication between staff is not always perfect and
both Head Office and a third party support organization also need to know
the passwords, having the users change their own password is not
feasible. My environment also dictates that I do not show the logged on
user.

You will have to use Classic View in Start Menu Properties to hide the user
account that is logged in.

I want to issue barcoded cards to my store personel to automate the login
process. The barcode readers are hard wired to append a <enter> sequence
after every field ( a requirement of the POS aplpication). So I want to
barcode both the user ID and password as a single string.

Sounds simple, I created a barcode containing the following sequence:
UserID <tab> password.

When I scan it in wordpad, it works perfectly.

How have you established that a tab character is being generated?

However, the logon prompt
ignores the <tab> and puts UserIDPasssword as a single string in the User
ID field.

I assume that you are using the CTRL-ALT-DEL type login prompt that has
fields for both user id and password. If this is the case, this prompt does
not ignore the tab - try it manually on a keyboard. It sounds like the bar
code is not generating a true tab keyscan code.

 

[NobodyMan]

I'm in a retail environment requires a single user ID at the POS
terminal. There is quite a turnover of staff requiring regular password
change. Because communication between staff is not always perfect and
both Head Office and a third party support organization also need to know
the passwords, having the users change their own password is not
feasible. My environment also dictates that I do not show the logged on
user.

I want to issue barcoded cards to my store personel to automate the login
process. The barcode readers are hard wired to append a <enter> sequence
after every field ( a requirement of the POS aplpication). So I want to
barcode both the user ID and password as a single string.

Sounds simple, I created a barcode containing the following sequence:
UserID <tab> password.

When I scan it in wordpad, it works perfectly. However, the logon prompt
ignores the <tab> and puts UserIDPasssword as a single string in the User
ID field.

Does anybody know how to force the cursor to move from the UserID to
Password automatically?

Thanks.

Are you referring to the XP logon, or the Logon process for your POS
software? If the latter, it's not an XP issue so much as an issue for
your to ask the support folks who wrote your POS software.