Re: Scheduling NTBackup to mapped drive

  • From: Danny <nocmonkey@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:43:11 -0400

Yah, I won't leave a user logged in. Not an option here. Thank you.

..D

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:30:41 -0700, John Tolmachoff (Lists)
<johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > You should leave the user logged in. Meaning, you
> > should LOCK the computer using ctrl-alt-delete, therby
> > securing the server and maintaining your mapped
> > drives.
> > I do that for all 110 of my servers. If you leave it
> > unlocked and logged off, anyone can log into it
> > creating a huge security problem.
> 
> THAT is a big item for discussion. IMHO, leaving the server logged on,
> whether or not locked, is a security risk. Any thing that can fire from the
> server with a user logged in will run under the permissions of that user. If
> no one is logged in, they first have to authenticate.
> 
> If you consider a computer sitting there not logged in a security risk, time
> to look at user access policies and password policies.
> 
> John Tolmachoff
> Engineer/Consultant/Owner
> eServices For You
> 
> 
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