[K12OSN] Automatic user logout script?

[Petre Scheie]

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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