Having been asked just last week, by a member of the system 'superuser' group, to increase his timeout-lockup in the session manager from 10 to 20 (!) minutes, I definitely agree with Brian!
---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:09:32 -0600 >From: Brian Nielsen <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Setting DIRM NEEDPASS NO in a LOGONBY user >To: [email protected] > >On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:21:59 -0500, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>This leads me to ask: Is NEEDPASS YES still needed? I view it as an >>anachronism from an older time when we didn't have autolock screensavers >>and generally more stringent workstation security policies. No more >>"always on" terminals. > >Given the number of people who walk away and leave their PC's unlocked and >unattended despite policy, it would be a poor assumption that the delay >time it takes the autolock to kick in is sufficient security. Blech! > >Brian Nielsen
