Hi guys, This is my first post and this might be one for the experts. The system admins at my work recently updated all of our machines. I was informed by the tech support that to logon to the computers now, you had to get an access ID/password assigned to you. So this is what I saw. After CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed, a customised logon screen is displayed. I'm assuming this is the nd_gina.dll file. After the user ID and password are entered, the computer logs in. The user IDs and passwords are not stored locally on the machine, because there are over 200 ids/passwords. I also know for a fact that SQL server is used somehow to validate the user account. (I asked about all of this while they were setting it up). My question is, how does all of this work together? How is the ID/pass sent to the remote SQL server and what program actually sends it? Is it the gina file that is sending the query to the SQL server to validate the account or is it something else? This might be kind of confusing, so ask if something is unclear. Thanks in advance for any help! EDIT: I also know for a fact that a separate windows account named SqlAgentCmdExec is used somehow. I did some research on this and I think this is the account that has permissions to run queries on the remote SQL server to check whether the ID/pass is valid.
