Screen inactivity lock for specific user

Brosec10

8/5/24, 2:30 PM

I have a workstation connected to a domain. A user logs on the machine with low privileges (currently running a local user in Kiosk mode). Due to the nature of the application this user has access to, it is necessary for the user to auto logon when the machine is turned on and for the screensaver not to appear or lockout the user after a set period of inactivity. However, there may be times when i need to logon to this machine with a user who has high privileges, such as local or domain admin. When this type of user logs on, i want the screen to lock after a period of inactivity. How can i achieve this?

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security

active-directory

group-policy

windows-10

windows-server-2019

Greg Askew

8/5/24, 4:18 PM

Domain Admins should never logon to those types of devices. Why would you do that? Also local user accounts do not apply the per user Group Policy needed to specify the lock screen screensaver. It seems like the hack around you need is a logon script that only admins have permission to execute, that sets the corresponding registry values for the lock screen screensaver. https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/how-to-change-the-logon-screen-saver-in-windows-ab28d230-ffb9-65f8-74a9-c26c5e00ec73

Brosec10

8/5/24, 10:28 PM

The chances are that I wouldn’t, but I wanted to word the question in a way that would give me the answer I was looking for. Let’s say hypothetically speaking that someone did login as admin. If I created a script to trigger on login of the admin user, would the change to the registry take effect straight away, or would the Lock Screen still not kick in until the machine had been restarted or the user had logged back out and back in again?

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