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At our computer lab I often find that some users have locked the screen. Others are still able to log in by clicking 'Switch User'. However, the previous user still stays logged into his/her session. How can I as an admin log these users out, when they lock their screen and stay away for hours? Any ideas?
That is what I would do. furthermore you could also kill any other applications that are being ran by that user. I find that if I kill my own desktop manager, some of those programs that were running while I had my X session running REMAIN running, and I cannot open that application again until I kill the process manually. Just some thoughts.
Place this in /etc/profile for system wide defaults. It will logout those inactive for the time in seconds you specify. 10 minutes or so is probably a good setting with a lot of traffic on public terminals/machines, etc.
Thank you for refreshing my memory, I knew there was a simple way to kill all processes from a certain user, skill appears to work great as well, I have just used pkill before.
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