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FYI - I don't work in IT. On 13/12/2018 19:12, M. J. Everitt
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On 13/12/18 19:07, mr meowski wrote:On 13/12/2018 19:02, Splodger wrote:Pretty sure it's common practice in environments where security is paramount. working for one of the largest corporations in Europe; Gausemann Group, it's common for all desktops to auto logout.That's to stop random people and other users hopping on to unattended computers, not to stop IT. Who have domain admin/root on everything anyway or at least a delegated subset sufficient to do their job... Which definitely includes having much higher privileges than users. Just the very idea of IT needing a user to unlock a computer for them is highly amusing. Like a surgeon needing their patient to make the first incision for them.It does sound like an unusually incompetent IT team ... waiiiiiiit .... nvm. |
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