Restrict users to a single login at any one time

[frontal]

Do any of you good fellows know how to restrict users to a single login at anyone time via GPO?

[plexer]

Install limit login from Microsoft or one of the other possibly pay for solutions.

 

Limit login is free.

 

Ben

[woody]

It can't be done I'm afraid within a GPO. In fact, Microsoft don't provide anything that I know of whch allows you to set this most basic feature on a network.

 

They do however endorse a solution called 'Limit Login' which I have tried to implement in the past and failed to do. I am sure this was failure on my part - I did try it in a bit of a rush. So it's well worth looking at.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/05/UtilitySpotlight/default.aspx

[webman]

I think there's been mention of a logon script and a crude text-file database of sorts that will logoff the user if a token exists (set by the logon script) elsewhere on the forum.

[plexer]

I wrote one of those as a vbs logon script and while it did work you have to also have a mechanism of clearing the flag in the case of a crashed machine.

 

Ben

[MkII]

[Norphy]

We use Userlock for this. Excellent piece of software