IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Safeguard Catalogue - Organisation Remarks
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S 2.103 Setting up user profiles under Windows 95
Initiation responsibility: IT Security Management
Implementation responsibility: Administrators
Under Windows 95 it is possible to carry out user separation by setting up user
profiles. This separation serves, however (if system guidelines do not carry
out a restriction, see S 2.104 System Guidelines for Restricting Usage of
Windows 95) only to retain user-specific settings and thereby contains an
individual work environment for each user, which he can adjust according to
his needs and requirements. A log-on password for Windows 95 will be
compulsory once the user profile has been activated. The same considerations
apply for this password as for WfW log-on passwords (see S 4.46 Use of the
Log-On Password under WfW and Windows 95).
Settings concerning the user will be saved in the following directory:
C:\WINDOWS\PROFILES\Username.
On a non-networked Windows 95 computer, user profiles should always be
activated if navigation under Windows 95 needs to be eased for inexperienced
users. This is also sensible if user separation is desired not from the point of
view of security, but for organisational or principal reasons.
For this purpose, the program group CONTROL PANEL should be opened,
then the option PASSWORDS and the user profile can then be activated or
deactivated.
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000