Using USB key to login computers on domain.

[Joshua Bauer]

Hello,

I'm an IT Technician of a High School with a little over 450 computers on a
domain. I'm basicly trying to work out if there is a way of using a usb stick
to login to a computer without having to install 3rd party software on the
computer.

The problem is having problem with students you have to go out to the
computer and enter your admin username and password, which can be very
insecure because the kids can look over your shoulder and it also wastes a
bit of time. I would like to be able to go to any computer in the school put
the usb stick in and it will log in automaticly and be able to access remote
desktop with the same thing, so i never have to put in the username and
password infront of the child(s).

Thank you

Josh Bauer

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Joshua Bauer" <[email protected]>

| Hello,
|
| I'm an IT Technician of a High School with a little over 450 computers on a
| domain. I'm basicly trying to work out if there is a way of using a usb stick
| to login to a computer without having to install 3rd party software on the
| computer.
|
| The problem is having problem with students you have to go out to the
| computer and enter your admin username and password, which can be very
| insecure because the kids can look over your shoulder and it also wastes a
| bit of time. I would like to be able to go to any computer in the school put
| the usb stick in and it will log in automaticly and be able to access remote
| desktop with the same thing, so i never have to put in the username and
| password infront of the child(s).
|
| Thank you
|
| Josh Bauer

No.
You have to use a login account.

 

[Russell Richardson]

What Network Provider Either Make Like A Student Account At My School They
Have A Student Account On The Novell Client And It Has diffrent Network
Drives Like Projects On My School

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Russell Richardson" <[email protected]>

| What Network Provider Either Make Like A Student Account At My School They
| Have A Student Account On The Novell Client And It Has diffrent Network
| Drives Like Projects On My School

Please do stay in school.
Definitely, concentrate on the English language and communications skills.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,

I'm an IT Technician of a High School with a little over 450 computers on
a
domain. I'm basicly trying to work out if there is a way of using a usb
stick
to login to a computer without having to install 3rd party software on the
computer.

The problem is having problem with students you have to go out to the
computer and enter your admin username and password, which can be very
insecure because the kids can look over your shoulder and it also wastes a
bit of time. I would like to be able to go to any computer in the school
put
the usb stick in and it will log in automaticly and be able to access
remote
desktop with the same thing, so i never have to put in the username and
password infront of the child(s).

Thank you

Josh Bauer

Having such a facility would be catastrophic because sooner or
later you'd leave the USB key behind, which would give the
students a golden opportunity to copy it. Learn how to touch-
type - it is a skill that is extremely useful: Not only will it make
you much more effective in your job but it will also make it
impossible for the students to watch you type your password.

 

[C.Joseph S. Drayton]

All you need to do is write a small app that calls 'RunAs'.

The account should be set up as limited. The teacher plugs in the thumb
drive, chooses the program they want to off of the menu on the
thumbdrive. The thumbdrive executes the program as 'RunAs'. You eject
the thumbdrive and go on your way.

I keep some software on a couple of clients machines that I don't want
them to run, and have it so that I can plugin my thumbdrive at any of
their workstations and access the maintenance apps through the
thumbdrive.

--

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[C.Joseph S. Drayton]

All you need to do is write a small app that calls 'RunAs'.

The account should be set up as limited. The teacher plugs in the
thumb drive, chooses the program they want to off of the menu on the
thumbdrive. The thumbdrive executes the program as 'RunAs'. You eject
the thumbdrive and go on your way.

I keep some software on a couple of clients machines that I don't want
them to run, and have it so that I can plugin my thumbdrive at any of
their workstations and access the maintenance apps through the
thumbdrive.

Sometimes I get into to much of a rush . . . <LOL>. The trick to making
this work is a little 5KB program that is free for us in both the
personal and computer world called 'sanur'. All it does is pipe the
password into the RunAs command. Sanur works great, but I found that
sometimes it had problems with passwords that contained numbers so the
password has to be in quotes. It also doesn't always know what to do
with long filenames that have spaces in them so again, put them in
quotes. With the little hap I wrote to handle those peculiarities, I
haven't found a system I couldn't use the thumbdrive on.

--

Sincerely,
C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
E-mail: (e-mail address removed)