Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ottsun1!pickles
From: pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles)
Subject: User tracking utility for PCs
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.201037.7965@ottsun1.uucp>
Sender: pickles@mpr.ca
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 20:10:37 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a utility that will log users' signon and signoff time on a
user-pool MSdos machine...when the machine is powered on, it would ask for
a user name (password not necessary), and then write to a log file the time
of signon.  Somehow it would be able to keep track of when the user logged
off, or turned off the machine.  I know this is a problem, because when the
machine is turned off it just stops dead.  I suspect that this program would
write a timestamp to the log file every so often to keep more-or-less up
to date.  We are not using this for accounting, so the logoff time doesn't
need to be too accurate - we just need it to find out who was using the
machine at a given time.   

Does this exist?  Is there any PD or Shareware that can do this?  Please
respond via E-mail.  Thanks.

Clive.


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