Restrict local account access based on time?

[Guest]

Is it possible to allow access to a local account only during certain time
periods?

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

Is it possible to allow access to a local account only during certain time
periods?

Try the NET USER command with the /times option

See...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;251394&sd=tech

It works for domain accounts although I'll admit I haven't tried it for
local... I can't find any info that says it WON'T

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

It will prevent a user from logging on, outside of allowed hours, but it won't force the user to log off when they expire.

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[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Is it possible to allow access to a local account only during certain time
periods?

Hi

If you need that the users are logged of when time is up,
you could take a look at the program "1st Security Center":

http://www.1securitycenter.com/

<quote>
The powerful feature "User Working Time" allows you to limit working
time for your children , office colleagues , students and so on. You
can define several time intervals and time durations to manage users
working time very easy.
</quote>


The application in the link below is a lot more limited, but it can
e.g. force a logoff/shutdown at a set time or after a time duration
(but it looks like this is computer based and not user based):

Aye Shutdown
http://www.ayesoftware.com/asd/

 

[Guest]

Thanks. Should work for local accounts; I'll have to check.
As for logging off the user when their time expires, I can always tinker
with the 'shutdown' command and Task Scheduler...

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Thanks. Should work for local accounts; I'll have to check.
As for logging off the user when their time expires, I can always tinker
with the 'shutdown' command and Task Scheduler...

Hi

Note that from my own testing, WinXP's builtin shutdown.exe utility is
not able to log off another user than the one user that is defined as
the "task" user. This means that it is pretty useless in this scenario.

It might work better selecting shutdown instead of log off, that I
haven't tested.

Anyway, Psshutdown.exe in SysInternals's free PSTools suite does not
suffer under this limitation and is the tool I recommends to use in
this case.

http://www.sysinternals.com