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posted by (anonymous) at 07:56am on 19/04/2012
If remote desktop is enabled on Windows XP, any administrative user can log in remotely. This has the side effect of forcibly logging out the current user. It's possible someone was trying to log in to their own machine, and got the wrong address...

(It's better in Windows 7, where it behaves in the same way as switching user, so it just locks your session)
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posted by [personal profile] crazyscot at 07:57am on 19/04/2012
Interesting. But the user in question, whilst a Remote Desktop user, is not (to my knowledge) an administrator...
Edited Date: 2012-04-19 07:58 am (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] mdavison.livejournal.com at 08:15am on 19/04/2012
(That first one was me)

Hmmm,

I think there's a setting somewhere in the guts of security policy that says who can disconnect other users, but I currently fail at remembering where this is.

The default behavior is described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280828 if you are interested...
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