[K12OSN] Rebooting WinTerms

[Chris Hobbs]

Chris Hobbs wrote:
> The problem is, if these machines are left untouched (once up to the 
> Windows logon screen), they recycle - that is, it appears that X dies 
> and restarts, relaunching rdesktop. This occurs appx every 5 minutes.

Well, replying to myself since I was able to track down the problem - I 
realize that the odds of anyone else having this same problem is remote, 
but this will hopefully seed Google :)

Anyway, it turns out that the WinLogon program has a hard-set timeout of 
120 seconds (my estimate was way off), and effectively cancels the logon 
screen.

There is a way around this, as MS has provided hooks for a programmer to 
replace the Graphical Identification and Authentication dll (gina.dll), 
which controls the response to that timeout. I'm going to look into this 
as a solution.

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