[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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