[Tutor] Securing a Computer...
Danny Yoo
dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu
Fri Sep 1 16:33:20 CEST 2006
>> I just got into high school, and the network and all the computers
>> aren't secure at all...I'm trying to make a program that password
>> protects the computer after an inactivity time, but there are some
>> specific things I can't find how I'm supposed to do it.
>
> Windoze has this feature built in. It's called 'locking' the computer.
> Look into it.
Just as another non-Python comment: you should be using Control-Alt-Delete
when logging into a Windows machine. It's the only key combination that's
untrappable by other programs besdies the Windows kernel. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete#Windows_NT
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