How to force a specific username login and force a prompt for a password

[Gordon Cash]

I need to lock a computer so only one person (AD account xyz) can log
on to this particular computer.
Autologin does not work because it does not force you to enter a
password if I put the password

I can't have anyone else log in to this computer except xyz. Maybe I
am setting up the autologin wrong.

I put in the default domain, default password, and default user id,
and set the autologin to 1 in the registry to setup autologin. I have
tried not putting in a password and that does not work because you can
still change the user id.

How can I make the username greyed out where it will only take xyz??

Thanks in advance.

[marty39]

You don't want autologon because it automatically logs in the default
user no matter who is sitting at the keyboard. I think you want to go
to users in the control panel and make sure there is only one user
account, and no guest account (or disable the guest account), and then
require the user to enter a password in order to log on.

[Eric Gilbert]

Marty39, this will not work if the computer is part of a domain, as any domain user can login, because local accounts are not used. I think using the Local Security Settings in the administrative tools, browse to local policies\user rights assignments then look for "deny access to this computer from the network". you can add which account you DON'T want to login. if there are too many, modify "access this computer from the network" instead and specify which GROUP YOU want to log on by creating a new group, add the use you want to log in to that group, remove all others EXCEPT administrators or you will lock yourself out. Keep in mind that "Deny access to this computer from the network" settings will prevail if a user apply to both settings mentioned here. for local users, modify the "Deny logon locally" setting at the same location. I suggest you test this in a VM to which you have setup a snapshot, may you lock yourself out of the PC, just roll back you snapshot and try again.