With TOAD installed as standard on a Windows XP computer the application saves the users settings to the C drive including connection details and passwords. Another user logging onto the computer gets access to the previous users settings and passwords. As most of the users hot-desk regularly this is a big security issue and need a way to save all user settings to their private network home drive.
If each of the hot-desking users has their own Windows XP login, then they should set up OS-authenticated users in Toad for each one. Each user would have a role in Toad/Oracle that allows them to select/update/execute etc. from the schemas they need to access. On login to Toad, the passwords are identified externally, so there is no need to save each of the user's passwords. As far as each unique Toad user being able to save settings files to their respective network folders, Toad does not have this capability. In Windows, Toad self-registers on the HKEY LOCAL MACHINE, not the HKEY LOCAL USER during installation.
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