Use Client login to accept company policy??

[ltromans]

I remember reading somewhere about a way to modify the client to show whatever verbage you want. I would like to have something that briefly says "By logging in to this pc you accept/understand the company policy that blah blah blah"

I couldn't find anything at novell. Does anyone here use something like that?

Novell 6, ZEN 4, client 4.90.1.0 SP1a, winXP

Thanks

 

[terry712]

you can put it in the login script

also you can hack the registry - this is on the ms side - think its the winlogin key

 

[ltromans]

I never even thought of the login script - I guess I had it in my mind that the client modification was the way to go.

I think I like that idea better than the registry hack.

Thanks

 

[bluffer]

If it's of any use, here's what someone wrote at our place and we deployed through the login script:

Batch file to call the vbscript:
@echo off
if not "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto skip
if exist "%systemdrive%\documents and settings" goto doit
goto skip
:doit
title xxx Banner deployment
cscript//nologo \\server\sys\public\banner\banner.vbs
goto end
:skip
echo Skipping banner deployment...
:end


And the VBScript:
' xxx date

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Dim capToken, capValue, txtToken, txtValue

capToken = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\LegalNoticeCaption"
capValue = "Warning: Use of this System is Restricted to Authorized Users"
txtToken = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\LegalNoticeText"
txtValue = "This computer system is the private property of the Company, blah, blah, blah"

WshShell.RegWrite capToken, capValue
WshShell.RegWrite txtToken, txtValue


There's probably better ways of doing it, but this works for us!

 

[ltromans]

Thanks Bluffer - I will give it a try.