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In <68006@hydra.gatech.EDU> dsm@prism.gatech.EDU writes:

>  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 with special lock program]
>  
>  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 :)

One way to cope with this would be hacking some not-to-be-replaced-by-
the-user program (could be xdm) to count idle time and logging the
user out if he has done nothing for 15 minutes. (I guess we are
talking about users who are physically away.)

MfG,
        Olaf
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