Planning Terminal Server Security

Terminal Server presents special security problems that you might not be used to if you're coming from a Novell or Windows server background. Users no longer are accessing your server's resources across a network through a file security barrier; instead, they are at your server working with its files as if they were sitting at the console. Imagine the security problems that could occur if a hundred different users were able to sit at the console of your Windows NT server in your computer room and access its resources, and the resources of the server were not locked down properly! If one user accidentally deletes a critical system file that's not locked down, all users are immediately affected. The use of file ...

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