WPSac

WPSac (Workplace Shell Access Control) is a tool that restricts access to the workplace shell to users with a configured user id (comparable with the WinNT logon). It also enables the administrator to restrict access to objects inside the workplace shell of a user. Users may share a workplace shell or use their own. Also it is able to logon to other tools or the LAN via the "Single signon feature".

Features
This program package enables OS/2 users to run different desktops on a single machine. It offers a logon panel on startup and a single signon facility to logon at other products in parallel during startup. Its features are:
 * Creation of user specific workplaces
 * Protects objects on the workplace shell of willfully or accidentally destruction
 * Administrator driven, user specific restriction of functionalities of the workplace shell or its objects
 * Single signon capability (Simultaneous logon of products of different vendors during system logon)

Other features are: WPSam is a tool similar to WPSac. It allows to switch the desktop by switching to another OS2.INI file (and OS2SYS.INI). A fullscreen version is also contained (INITOS2)
 * User specific environment variables
 * User specific system startup folders
 * Optional limitation of validity interval of passwords
 * Automatic password generation for the single signon feature
 * Logon with magnetic cards or chip cards
 * Grafical user interface for administration program
 * CID enabled installation procedure
 * Support of IBM LAN Server additional to Novell server for storage of LAN wide user profiles

Links

 * Source code at Github