How to Implement PWB in This Situation

[hankallan]

Hi,

We are trying to configure our public "Express" internet computers with PWB but cant find a way to close the privacy hole left behind when one user leaves before the activity timer expires and clears the cache. Can anyone suggest a way to do the following?

1. Walk up to a desktop that displays the user agreement then click the "Agree" link that opens a browser window with an exposed address bar and starts the activity timer of 15min.
2. We warn the user a few minutes prior to 15min expiration, then restart PWB back to desktop as in 1.

As mentioned this works fine except when a user leaves before 15min are up. Even if they closed the Second PWB window, clicking on agree allows the new user access to logged in webmail, user history etc.

One fix I tried was to set an inacitivity timer of 30 seconds and restart PWB after that. This will work much of the time but then if someone is actually reading a webpage with no activity for 30 seconds they get kicked off.

The problem has only become one when we switched to Windows 7 because in XP we could use Active Desktop and clicking the agree link would open PWB as the primary window which when closed would clear the cache.

thanks
Hank

[Scott]

One fix I tried was to set an inactivity timer of 30 seconds and restart PWB after that. This will work much of the time but then if someone is actually reading a webpage with no activity for 30 seconds they get kicked off.

If you enable the inactivity dialog the user will have a chance to cancel the inactivity action and restart the timer.


Here is another another approach.

Use the PWB policy dialog for the policy.

[Security]
ShowPolicyDialog=True

Combined with the PWB inactivity timer to reset PWB after a time, for example 30 seconds, with an exit action.

[Inactivity]
InactivityTimer=True
InactivitySeconds=30
InactivityAction=Exit

Add in the restart on close and clear cache on close to clean it up.

[Security]
ClearCacheOnClose=True
RestartOnClose=True


--Scott

[hankallan]

Yes Scott that solution now works well for us.

Thank You,
Hank

[hankallan]

Hello again Scott, et. al.

This has worked for a while now, thanks again. However, recently it has not been working as usual. What happens is somehow more than one instance of the agreement page appears. So I think what we need is a way to ensure that only one instance of the agreement window and its children windows are open. Any ideas?

thanks,
Hank

[Scott]

You can set the following to only allow one instance of PWB.

[Security]
DisableSecondInstance=True

--Scott

[hankallan]

Yes, I think that fixed the problem. Thanks again Scott.