[WEB4LIB] NT, Password protection and Win95

[John T. Benedetto]

> Our Public machines have IKIOSK and WinU 4.0 on them, that locks those
> Win95 machines down fairly well, but it's not a great solution for staff
> machines. We just have had some problems with student workers after the
> staff have gone home getting onto the staff computers and playing around
> and sometimes, as they try to cover their tracks (because they were looking
> at porn or downloaded some game and had played it) they end up deleting

It's a pain, but the solution for any machine that students can get to it
to lock it down, too.

When they arrive in the morning, the staff can disable the security
features and re-enable them when they go home in the evening (I do not
know how WinU works; we have Fortres here at our library).

I've had trouble with such misuse by student employees on the staff PC in
Circ, and the best way to do it was to enable Fortres on the machine.

The obvious resistance will come from Staff not wanting to deal with the
hassle of enabling and disabling security on their machines, along with
them leaving the offending application (in our case, Netscape) when they
are away from their desk.

Good luck with it.

- John