[K12OSN] Automatic user logout script?

Jim Anderson netman1 at optonline.net
Fri Dec 8 19:40:15 UTC 2006


Thanks! Another problem solved courtesy of this list!

Jim

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:17 -0600, Petre Scheie wrote:
> Yes, it should!  And here I had the gall--the gall!--to suggest to my son that he check 
> his homework before handing it in to his teacher.  ;-)  Thanks Robert.
> 
> Petre
> 
> Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > On 12/8/06, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> >> How about this:
> >>
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >> for ID in $(awk -F: '$3 >= 500 {print $1}')
> > 
> > shouldn't that be
> > 
> > for ID in $(awk -F: '$3 >= 500 {print $1}' /etc/passwd)
> > 
> >> do
> >> pkill $ID
> >> done
> >>
> >> Put this into a file, make it executable (chmod +x), and then set 
> >> root's crontab to run
> >> it at, say 5pm.  Fedora defaults to starting user UID numbers at 500 
> >> and going up from
> >> there, so we avoid killing any system processes.
> >>
> >> Petre
> >>
> >> Jim Anderson wrote:
> >> > Is there a script available to automatically log out users at the 
> >> end of
> >> > the day from K12LTSP?  I have users that tend to leave while still
> >> > logged in.  Relatedly, is there a way to force a logout remotely from a
> >> > terminal prompt as root?
> >> >
> >> > K12LTSP v.5.0
> >> > Dell Pentium D 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM
> >> > 24 GX1 clients
> >> >
> >> > Jim
> >> >
> >> >
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