We are very confused by the new version of SGE (having used the old versions for years with no problem).
We ,the IT dept, install & configure all laptops; the users don't do any admin. After installing SGE 5.50.8 (Pre-install,install,policy), the laptop boots & bypasses the SGE logon screen; it pops up momentarily and says it is auto-logging on, then starts Windows & the Windos logon screen. I eventually worked out by reading on this forum that this was because I only had one account, the administrator account, on the laptop. After I logged into Windows with the user account and re-booted I then get the SGE boot login screen. However, this is where the problem arises. It will only login with the administrator user name and password. Obviously I cannot give this to the user so am a bit stuck at the moment. I understand from what I have read that SGE now takes the first user logon and makes that the boot logon. Can someone explain why this is so ? It seems extremely insecure to have the boot username & password the same as Windows as anybody only needs to get hold of one set of credentials to get in. With the previous versions of SGE you could set a separate boot password that was entirely different from the Windows user accounts.
The only way I can see at the moment to solve this is to uninstall SGE, create a 'dummy' Windows user account, re-install SGE and login first with that dummy account to set that as the boot account. Is this the only way to make SGE operate with boot authentication credentials that are different from the Windows logon credentials ?
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