Hacking Novell's GINA replacement

[Idontwantspam]

Hey all.

Does anyone know what file(s) contain the dialogs that Novell uses for locking the computer, Windows Novell Security dialog, etc? I am referring to Novell Client installed on Windows XP or 2000. I would like to hack around some, like I do with msgina.dll, but I can only find some of the components. Novell's logon system confuses the **** out of me. It seems like some things they replace with their own, others they rely on the default msgina.dll for... it's all unclear.

This is what I've found out:

NWGINA.dll, which is what shows up in

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows NT/Winlogon!ginaDLL

That file when opened with ResHacker contains nothing but version info. It has none of the components such as log on, log off, windows security, lock computer, etc. which are in msgina.dll. I did find though a file that appears to be linked to NWGINA.dll in some way that has some of the components I speak of. It has some of the icons that show up at logon, etc. and it has some of the parts of various logon dialogs, etc. It does have the Novell banner that is displayed above the logon, locked workstation, and Novell Security dialogs. But some of the components I want to modify, specifically the Novell Security dialog, with Lock Workstation, Change Password, etc. are not in this file. Does anyone know where these exist?

On the other hand, modifying the Press Ctrl+Alt+Del screen is really, really easy! It's stored as a plain old bitmap that resides in C:\WINDOWS and is named nwelcome.bmp. It can be modded to your heart's content, even made larger. So at least that part is easy to customize.

I particularly want to know where this dialog is, but it would be nice to know more in general about how the heck this whole thing works. Beats me why they can't just have it all in one sensible place like Microsoft does.

I hope someone can help. Thanks!

PS: If this belongs somewhere else, please go ahead and move it. I put it here because it refers to Novell on multiple Windows NT operating systems.

[Idontwantspam]

Aha! I figured it out. A lot of the dialogs are in C:/WINDOWS/System32/loginw32.exe. The rest are in a somewhat hard to find folder, C:/WINDOWS/system32/nls/ENGLISH/nwginar.dll and loginw32.rll in the same folder. Yes, RLL, though I have no idea what the RLL extension is supposed to be. But whatever it is, ResHacker can open and save it, so it works.

[jaclaz]

RLL stands for something like Resource (or Runtime) dynamic Link Library, the file format is the same as .DLL, I have seen some of these files in other installs too, a reference is here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a...26(SQL.80).aspx

jaclaz

[Idontwantspam]

So, it's basically a DLL, only with a different name? OK. Thanks.