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Title: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: Michael Smith on April 12, 2002, 07:45:50 PM: Like it or not, as a consultant I am often asked to make the login process invisible to end users in small offices ... protest as I might, many people just want their computers to turn on & be ready for them when they come back with a cup of coffee. I know I can edit the smb.conf template so users can have a null password (though I haven't made it work through a reboot yet) but it'd be nice to have an option in the server manager ... with a popup that says "NOT RECOMMENDED! You have been warned!" ... for "no password" so that a Windows user could simply autologin.
Title: Re: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: alain on April 13, 2002, 06:00:32 AM: All agreed.
Not recommended.... but sometimes very useful....
Title: Re: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: Kelvin on April 14, 2002, 11:04:29 AM: I believe this is achievable at the desktop end (with some exceptions), even if there was a password assigned to an account.

One exception for example is under W2K, you can autologin only in workgroup mode but not domain mode (which was fine in my setup as I only ever need to access a fixed mapped drive from the server).

Kelvin
Title: Re: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: Michael Smith on April 16, 2002, 08:13:55 AM: It's just a major pain in the neck to get the workstations working with no password when the SME box requires a password to login. I know security is an issue, and I'm all for strong passwords but my clients by and large really don't seem to care about password security within their networks on a day-to-day basis. Therefore it'd be nice to have the *option* to turn password protection for user accounts off.
Title: Re: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: Lazo on April 16, 2002, 07:41:19 PM: Or you can use tweekgui or something like that, is a program that change the windows registry, and you can set the password and autologin to any server, It's still not recommended, but it's anoher way to do it!! It's a freeware, so give it a try!
Title: Re: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: Michael Smith on April 19, 2002, 12:28:28 AM: good idea on the tweakui! I'd forgotten you could do that ...
Title: Re: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: scotty on April 29, 2002, 06:11:16 PM: Well the last time someone asked me to urn on autologon I asked him if he leaves his car running the whole time with the doors open.....

He understood........ Funny enough he didnt want the autologon...
Title: Re: No passwords, for those who like it that way
Post by: Geoff Bennion on June 12, 2002, 08:27:20 PM: Why don't you use the autoadminlogon registry edit, to allow the pc's to logon with a password automagically ??