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In article <1992Sep10.161835.20380@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:

[Logging out users who have their screen locked]

>What about the following?

>A locking program that 
>- displays the time it is running,
>- after N minutes provides a button which will log the user out (with
>N preferrably to be specified in a configuration file),
>- perhaps communicates with other workstations in the cluster, to
>enable the logout only when no other workstation is idle.

This leaves out one very important problem.  Since the person who is using
the machine has ownership of the console, he/she can simply crank up his
own version of lock that doesn't have the logout feature.  Are you just going
to tell them that they can't run it?

Heck, we hav trouble  keeping people from bringing in cokes into some of our
clusters (even though we have huge signs).  Somehow I think people would 
laugh at a reguirement to use the system lockscreen :)
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