On 09/01/10 7:40 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John R Pierce<pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
>> however, that user shouldn't show up on the "Welcome" friendly style login
>> screen. OTOH, I'm not sure what mechanism is used to prevent this.
>>
>> ah, a little googling... on 32bit windows.. registry entry
>>
>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
>> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
>>
>> has a value with the username and a DWORD of 0x00000000 to block the user
>> from being displayed. on 64bit Win7 at least, this is in
>>
>> HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows
>> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
> Is there a more universal, trans-windows platform api for a call to
> make such a change? Especially a switch at account creation time.
>
it appears to sort of be an afterthought.... I don't think there's any
API or whatever. If I'd been designing it, I likely would have done
it with group membership... like anyone who was a member of 'Login
Users' or something. but hindsight is always 20-20.