Hi sniperu,
Where woul we set the Deny permission on iexplore group policy? same as Domain Users with executive rights group policy?
bach file in a login script?
Thanks
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We have generic windows accounts on some workstations(XP)(domain 2003) we track internet usage by using websense but with using generic accounts it is not a speciic user we would like to track who uses the internet and wanted to know if there is a group policy setting to force an user to login on when launcing IE? Perfer not to use a proxy if possible.
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A logon script from GPO would not work because it runs with the credentials of the user logging in. You would need to run a startup script from Computer Configuration in the GPO. You could also use an Active Directory user profile logon script (select all the generic users in Active Directory Users and Computers -> right click/Properties -> Profile).
To set permissions I would get all the generic users in a group and deny permissions on iexplore with cacls:
cacls "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" /e /d DOMAIN\Generic_users_group
Put the bat file in my previous post on a public share that your generic users can access and copy the file to %allusersprofile%\desktop so they can't mess with it.
If it's a small number of workstations you need this for then you could also try psexec: http://technet.microsoft.c
If this is a large environment an ISA Server would probably be more suitable.
Also don't forget to alert the users and their managers before you do this to avoid the support calls :) .
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by: sniperuPosted on 2008-11-29 at 07:03:01ID: 23059860
If you are not running Vista you can do this:
- set Deny permissions on iexplore.exe for the generic accounts. Also make shure Domain Users for every domain has execution rights on iexplore.exe (you might have done additional hardening if these are kiosk computers)
- create a bat file similar to this:
@set /p internetuser=Your username is:
@runas /user:%internetuser% "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
This is going to prompt the user to enter his username and password and then start Internet Explorer with that username.