On Sun 20 May 2007 14:04:44 NZST +1200, Andrew Sands wrote: > So, I looking for how I might either produce an on-screen alarm\alert or > possibly even log them off after a nominated time has elapsed.
Set the screensaver in KDE to auto-lock after inactivity timeout. Further login screens can be obtained by anyone else by following the obvious link on the lock-screen, should the person who logged in originally not be around right now. Very convenient. Talk about Multiuser, non-Redmond style. With tcsh, set the autologout shell variable to some number in minutes, after which it will perform an exit if there was no activity. Dunno whether this will get rid of KDE/whatever else you use. Dunno whether bash has something similar. > In association with this, does anyone have some thoughts on how I might > instigate a time-out scheme to only allow logins from certain users for > periods of thirty-to-forty minutes... Can't help, but would be interested too. Should those users not be very computer savvy, create a KDE autostart script which runs sleep 1800 && killall $USER. Dito gnome. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
