Lock Computer withour revealing user name?

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John A. regaled us with the following:

> I have my Win2000Pro systems configured to not fill in the last user
> name in the login screen, so as to not give any clues whatsoever to an
> intruder. (You never know how obvious a user will insist on making
> their password.)
>
> Problem: when the computer is locked via Ctrl-Alt-Del + Enter the
> dialog asking for a password to unlock it still reveals the login name
> of the current user.
>
> How can I make Win2000Pro hide the user name in that dialog?
>
> Thanks for any information!

I suggest you enforce strong(er) passwords...

- --
Skorpion [skorpion at suespammers dot org]
"Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."

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You can not change that behavior. The option is to logoff instead. ---
Steve


"John A." <no.john@spammers.virgi.niaqui.lter.allowed.com> wrote in message
news:1o14m094bud5tadara7bmmtrfnqiusr242@4ax.com...
>I have my Win2000Pro systems configured to not fill in the last user
> name in the login screen, so as to not give any clues whatsoever to an
> intruder. (You never know how obvious a user will insist on making
> their password.)
>
> Problem: when the computer is locked via Ctrl-Alt-Del + Enter the
> dialog asking for a password to unlock it still reveals the login name
> of the current user.
>
> How can I make Win2000Pro hide the user name in that dialog?
>
> Thanks for any information!

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

You would have to write your own Gina.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net



John A. wrote:
> I have my Win2000Pro systems configured to not fill in the last user
> name in the login screen, so as to not give any clues whatsoever to an
> intruder. (You never know how obvious a user will insist on making
> their password.)
>
> Problem: when the computer is locked via Ctrl-Alt-Del + Enter the
> dialog asking for a password to unlock it still reveals the login name
> of the current user.
>
> How can I make Win2000Pro hide the user name in that dialog?
>
> Thanks for any information!

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:07:23 -0400, "Joe Richards [MVP]"
<humorexpress@hotmail.com> wrote:

>You would have to write your own Gina.

Interesting. Could the existing DLL possibly be hacked with a resource
editor to perhaps change the text color of the user name to match the
background? Or would that be detected as a possible security breach
via some sort of checksum?

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That would definitely be unsupported.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net



John A. wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:07:23 -0400, "Joe Richards [MVP]"
> <humorexpress@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>You would have to write your own Gina.
>
>
> Interesting. Could the existing DLL possibly be hacked with a resource
> editor to perhaps change the text color of the user name to match the
> background? Or would that be detected as a possible security breach
> via some sort of checksum?