Comments for Parallel Interface http://www.paralint.com/blog Programming security in Java and C++, one line at a time Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:24:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on Remplacement GINA now allows force logoff, administrator exclusion by Jan http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/02/04/remplacement-gina-now-allows-force-logoff-administrator-exclusion/#comment-309 Jan Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:46:44 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/02/04/remplacement-gina-now-allows-force-logoff-administrator-exclusion/#comment-309 Suggest argue, because only in a dispute born truth. Suggest argue, because only in a dispute born truth.

]]> Comment on Unlock any user’s session without losing data or killing processes by Guillaume http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-308 Guillaume Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:46:27 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-308 Content de t'avoir aidé ! Assure-toi d'utiliser la derniere version (use project link on top of page) Content de t’avoir aidé ! Assure-toi d’utiliser la derniere version (use project link on top of page)

]]> Comment on Unlock any user’s session without losing data or killing processes by Chris http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-307 Chris Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:26:29 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-307 Thanks for sharing the code! I may borrow a couple ideas for an upcoming GINA project and was amused at the French function/comments dropped into the middle of UnlockPolicy.c. It brings back a few memories. :) Thanks for sharing the code! I may borrow a couple ideas for an upcoming GINA project and was amused at the French function/comments dropped into the middle of UnlockPolicy.c. It brings back a few memories. :)

]]> Comment on High availability for humans by LayerryEmaide http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/07/11/high-availability-for-humans/#comment-295 LayerryEmaide Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:51:14 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/?p=55#comment-295 Very nice!! Very nice!!

]]> Comment on Unlock any user’s session without losing data or killing processes by Guillaume http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-292 Guillaume Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:58:34 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-292 Glad you find it usefull, thank you for leaving a comment ! Glad you find it usefull, thank you for leaving a comment !

]]> Comment on Unlock any user’s session without losing data or killing processes by Benjamin Grant http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-291 Benjamin Grant Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:28:54 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/unlock-any-users-session-without-losing-data-or-killing-processes/#comment-291 I think this is an excellent GINA hook. in some environments, most typically an office here is a good example of your tool being a success.... its a monday, and the admin/tech support is at a meeting and isnt on site. Claire however has an important letter to print out and send at 2:00PM, but at 10:30 went home i'll. However her workstation was still left logged on, and bearing in mind each pc workstation holds no personal data except those of the clients (on the letter for exmple). Now John comes along and CAN unlock her workstation, print the letter and send it off, few days later company gets contract as the letter was sent in on time. thats just one scenario, but I feel that within careful use you can incorporate it very well, and if someone DID misue it within the office say, Jim used it to alter something, then he would be caught as his name would be logged as a system event. very good stuff! incorporating it at home. thanks very much. ben :) I think this is an excellent GINA hook.

in some environments, most typically an office here is a good example of your tool being a success….

its a monday, and the admin/tech support is at a meeting and isnt on site. Claire however has an important letter to print out and send at 2:00PM, but at 10:30 went home i’ll. However her workstation was still left logged on, and bearing in mind each pc workstation holds no personal data except those of the clients (on the letter for exmple). Now John comes along and CAN unlock her workstation, print the letter and send it off, few days later company gets contract as the letter was sent in on time.

thats just one scenario, but I feel that within careful use you can incorporate it very well, and if someone DID misue it within the office say, Jim used it to alter something, then he would be caught as his name would be logged as a system event.

very good stuff! incorporating it at home.

thanks very much.

ben :)

]]> Comment on Notifu supports concatenation of parameters by Sof http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/05/05/notifu-supports-concatenation-of-parameters/#comment-287 Sof Fri, 16 May 2008 21:06:43 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/?p=52#comment-287 Thanks Guillaume for the nice work! If you use thunderbird and its mailbox alert add-on, (<a href="http://tjeb.nl/Projects/Mailbox_Alert/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://tjeb.nl/Projects/Mailbox_Alert/index.html</a>) Notifu, thanks to Guillaume's efforts can be also used as a nice mail notifier. Mailbox alert allows to execute a command when a message arrives and can display nice balloons announcing stuf like the sender's name or the subject of the new message. to use it properly owever, the command line must be typed in a special way (thanks to the new concatenation feature). For example, in the mailbox alert's execute command field, you can type this : notifu.exe /p inbox: /m Message\ from\ /m %sendername No need to use quotes, as you would have done usually when you use Notifu, Mailbox alert can't keep from adding them itself. Be also sure to "escape" all spaces needing to be displayed and the double-space before the second /m needed to separate the parameters. All those explanations have been given to me by Guillaume by mail and I hope they will be useful for other people. Cheers, Sof Thanks Guillaume for the nice work! If you use thunderbird and its mailbox alert add-on, (http://tjeb.nl/Projects/Mailbox_Alert/index.html) Notifu, thanks to Guillaume’s efforts can be also used as a nice mail notifier. Mailbox alert allows to execute a command when a message arrives and can display nice balloons announcing stuf like the sender’s name or the subject of the new message. to use it properly owever, the command line must be typed in a special way (thanks to the new concatenation feature). For example, in the mailbox alert’s execute command field, you can type this :
notifu.exe /p inbox: /m Message\ from\ /m %sendername

No need to use quotes, as you would have done usually when you use Notifu, Mailbox alert can’t keep from adding them itself. Be also sure to “escape” all spaces needing to be displayed and the double-space before the second /m needed to separate the parameters.
All those explanations have been given to me by Guillaume by mail and I hope they will be useful for other people.
Cheers,
Sof

]]> Comment on Denial of service on Vista using Resource Monitor by Guillaume http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/denial-of-service-on-vista-using-resource-monitor/#comment-105 Guillaume Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:02:21 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/denial-of-service-on-vista-using-resource-monitor/#comment-105 Good trick, Thank you ! Your comment prompted me to try to find another way of getting out... I always have a cmd open. I painstakingly switched to it and type pskill perfom (took me over 1 minute!) and it worked ! $ pskill perfmon PsKill v1.12 - Terminates processes on local or remote systems Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com 2 processes named perfmon killed. Good trick, Thank you !

Your comment prompted me to try to find another way of getting out… I always have a cmd open. I painstakingly switched to it and type pskill perfom (took me over 1 minute!) and it worked !

$ pskill perfmon

PsKill v1.12 - Terminates processes on local or remote systems
Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - http://www.sysinternals.com

2 processes named perfmon killed.

]]> Comment on Denial of service on Vista using Resource Monitor by Icono http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/denial-of-service-on-vista-using-resource-monitor/#comment-96 Icono Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:11:06 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/denial-of-service-on-vista-using-resource-monitor/#comment-96 Update. I managed to get services.msc started by using the run command in task manager. I then opened a dialog box for one of the services. Then I pressed the power button on the PC which started the shutdown process. The black shutdown (end task) windows shows up then and says you have dialog boxes open. You should close dialog boxes before shutting down. I then clicked "cancel" to stop the shutdown process and the flickering stopped. Who knows what order it will try and shut your apps down, but you might get lucky and it'll get to this before it shuts down your apps. Update. I managed to get services.msc started by using the run command in task manager. I then opened a dialog box for one of the services. Then I pressed the power button on the PC which started the shutdown process. The black shutdown (end task) windows shows up then and says you have dialog boxes open. You should close dialog boxes before shutting down. I then clicked “cancel” to stop the shutdown process and the flickering stopped. Who knows what order it will try and shut your apps down, but you might get lucky and it’ll get to this before it shuts down your apps.

]]> Comment on Denial of service on Vista using Resource Monitor by Icono http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/denial-of-service-on-vista-using-resource-monitor/#comment-95 Icono Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:05:49 +0000 http://www.paralint.com/blog/2008/01/05/denial-of-service-on-vista-using-resource-monitor/#comment-95 I have replicated this behavior on our Vista Business 32 computer. If a standard user tries to run the resource monitor from the task manager, the following happens. The task manager constantly flickers and it's hard to click on anything. The computer reports 100% cpu useage from explorer.exe. Resoure monitor only shows up in the task bar as a round icon, but no "bar" to click on. This icon will move around the task bar randomly, displacing other items in the task bar. You cannot end task on it as task manager is messed up. Rebooting does fix the issue, but doesn't make resource monitor work. No problems with an admin account. The effect looks like someone is alt-tabbing over and over again, 5 times a second. The flicker effect transfers to every window you open so the alt-tab theory seems corrent. You have about 20 miliseconds to click on something in the window before you lose window focus. It might take about 20 clicks to successfully click on anything in the window. I have replicated this behavior on our Vista Business 32 computer. If a standard user tries to run the resource monitor from the task manager, the following happens. The task manager constantly flickers and it’s hard to click on anything. The computer reports 100% cpu useage from explorer.exe. Resoure monitor only shows up in the task bar as a round icon, but no “bar” to click on. This icon will move around the task bar randomly, displacing other items in the task bar. You cannot end task on it as task manager is messed up. Rebooting does fix the issue, but doesn’t make resource monitor work. No problems with an admin account. The effect looks like someone is alt-tabbing over and over again, 5 times a second. The flicker effect transfers to every window you open so the alt-tab theory seems corrent. You have about 20 miliseconds to click on something in the window before you lose window focus. It might take about 20 clicks to successfully click on anything in the window.

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