Allow Shutdown not in system registry

William Hooper whooper "at" freeshell.org
Wed Mar 31 19:39:00 2004


E. Sprow said:
>
>> You are right in that the option to lock the server is not there, but
>> even
>> using a user account, a person can shut off the server from running by:
>> going to the start menu and selecting "stop vnc server" or bring up the
> task
>> manager and shutting it down that way.

This is dependent on the OS you are using.  From the sounds of it you are
using Win98, so the registry key wouldn't have helped you anyway.  Win9x
has no concept of security.

If you are running WinNT/2000/XP you can us the OS controls to make the
users not have the ability to stop services.

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William Hooper