Auto logoff for OS X?

[hmueller]

Greetings All,

I have been looking for a solution to the problem of users walking away from a workstation without logging out. What I would like to find is something that could run on the workstation that would, after a specified period of inactivity, log the user out thereby unmounting their mounted server shares and protecting their locally stored files.

Any ideas?

–Harry

[mattjenns]

There is a screensaver module to help with this:

http://www.solidsun.com/logoutae/

The trick is to get it set for every user, since screensaver prefs are save in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost.

I suspect you could implement a LoginHook to run a script that uses the defaults command to force this setting, but i haven’t tried.

[Cabbage]

logoutae works great. They are working on some documentation for the login hook but it isn’t ready yet.

[InfraredAD]

If you are planning on or already have 10.3 Server, auto logout is also a feature available via the Workgroup Manager. Later! 8)

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