RE: [eGroupWare-users] Lock screen feature

[Nigel K. <nig...@pe...>]

>maybe I misunderstand you, but: Nigel wants to have 'lock screen ...
feature for when users leave their PC >for a short while ...'
>
>If you leave your desk for some minutes and use the lock-screen feature
of your OS/desktop environment 
>(e.g. KDE, Gnome, Windows, etc.), then nobody has access to your PC and
of course not to eGroupware or any >other application. So where's the
problem and why should I lock only one special application if can lock
>the whole machine? Or do you think about hijacking an
eGroupware-session? 
>
>Do I miss something?
>
>cu
>Markus

Markus-here's the story:

Our systems are used in a medical/clinical environment and the
workstations (Win2K/WinTerms) are used as record lookup stations located
around the offices and consulting rooms.

The patient record application has a user fast-switch/lock feature so
ANY user can type in their ID/password within the app on any workstation
and be instantly 'in charge' of the application to view and update
patient records - this is an important feature because updates/drug
dispensing etc. need to be tracked by user.

Our users are also becoming involved in a trial of eGW and will
occasionally use it to check a shared knowledge base, calendar etc.

The workstations are shared and used by anyone (authorised!) who walks
by - if an individual user locked the workstation at the OS level then
only they (or admin) could unlock it, causing problems for other users
who need to check some records quickly - worse case they would have to
reboot and wait.

Having an app-level lock for eGW would be VERY useful for us.

Nigel

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