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Can I prevent users from launching applications with a different username and password?

Yes. In a standard Secure Global Desktop installation, users can force Secure Global Desktop to prompt them for a username and password by holding down the SHIFT key when they click an application's link on the webtop. To prevent users from being able to do this, you must change the Authentication Dialog attribute on the Application launch panel in Array Manager. This attribute controls when the application server's authentication dialog displays.

The settings are:

Setting	Description
Never show	Holding down SHIFT has no effect on the application launch. If a user's cached password is incorrect or missing, the authentication dialog never displays and the application launch fails.
Show on password problem only	Holding down SHIFT has no effect on the application launch. If a user's cached password is incorrect or missing, the authentication dialog displays.
Show on Shift-click or password problem	Holding down SHIFT forces the authentication dialog to display. This is the default Secure Global Desktop setting.

Related topics
Application Launch properties (array-wide)