Locking down Fedora Core 2 desktop

Mike Klinke lsomike at futzin.com
Sat Jun 19 13:28:30 UTC 2004


On Saturday 19 June 2004 07:45, Damir Dezeljin wrote:
 
> So I still have to solve some problems:
 
>1. Is it possible to remotely (from SSH session) lock the desktop
>    (screen saver lock ?) of the local loged user? How can I achieve
> this? 

>2. Is it possible to remotely (from SSH session) log out a
> local loged in user without restarting the X server (init 3 && init
> 5)? How can I achieve this?

Take a look at "skill" for these two; i.e.

skill -STOP -u <user>

and

skill -KILL -u <user>

 
Regards,  Mike Klinke





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