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by danser01

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Hey All,

We have a stand alone shared computer that has a generic logon that multiple employees use. Due to large volume of users it would not be practicle to have individual logins for this machine.

Currently, if a User wants to use the machine, they write their name on a bit of paper next to the computer so we have a very basic way of tracking 'who did what and when' if there are any issues. Obviously this is not a great way to track usage and is hard to police.

We are looking for a piece of software that would ideally prompt a user for their name when they log in using the generic login account. This name would be stored in a text file or similar next to date and time.If we ever needed to find out who was using the PC at a certain date/time we could look through the text file.

Any ideas of software that would do this? We don't need key logging or anything like that - just a prompt for user's name and timings they used it from/to.

Thanks.

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by bizzo

It seems you're going to a lot of trouble to try and monitor/track users logins. If someone is going to do something devious on the machine, then they'd cover their tracks by amending whatever text files you have in place.

Why is it not practical to have an account for each user? Because that would do exactly what you need.

by older mycroft

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