Re: Forcing inactive users off system.

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  Another quickie: is there anyway I can get my system to automatically
> logoff users if they have been inactive for a set period?

Yes, BUT:
* users may need to stay logged in even though they may look inactive:
waiting for messages from some other program, interrupts, etc.
* 'users' may not necessarily be humans, you can't just kill -9 every
process which has been inactive for a while .. ;)
* terminating services without warning can be a recipe for disaster -
saving work, etc., is not something you can do automatically.

Might want to think about these ;))))

Otherwise, you'll need a program which kicks off users after a set time.
Then, put that in your cron. I know of no such progam, not something I've
ever considered, but I'm sure there's something out there somewhere..

Cheers,

Alex.


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