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Unlocking another user’s session using Credential Providers

I have been working a little bit lately on a Credential Provider port of my custom GINA. I did some tests, I poked around the API and I whipped together something I could load and play with. The route I first thought of taking is still the right one, but I ran into some unexpected [...]

Can your GINA do this ? (running any process on the secure desktop)

I get asked a lot of questions about my custom Gina. Most of them come from people who want to write a custom Gina themselves to do … whatever. A custom Gina runs in Winlogon’s process. It runs under the SYSTEM account, in the TCB… In short it can do pretty much anything. But some [...]

Subversion GUI output from the command line

I use Subversion command line client. But I also have Tortoise SVN installed, because some operations like log and check-in benefit from the GUI. Tortoise SVN is a Explorer shell extension which calls a Windows executable, TortoiseProc.exe. To use it from the command line, simply save this batch file somewhere in your path : @echo [...]