Re: autologout with CDE

From: Anh Tu NGUYEN TRONG (proj_tools_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 08/25/03 

Date: 25 Aug 2003 07:01:10 -0700

Ilya <ilya_m@flashmail.com> wrote in message news:<bhrr10$jus$1@overload.lbl.gov>...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a problem that I am sure many of you have faced and,
> hopefully, tackled successfully...
>
> I am trying to find a way to automatically logout a user
> from a CDE session after a certain amount of inactivity
> time. First the screen should be locked and then, after a
> little while, reset to the dtlogin.
>
> The first part - locking the screen - is easily done with
> the lock feature of the screen saver. However, I was
> unsuccessful in finding an answer to the second part of the
> task - logging the user out.
>
> I have read about the 'autologout' variable in csh/tcsh,
> that logs out inactive login sessions. But this seems not to
> be working with CDE sessions.
>
> Is there a standard way of enforcing autologout for idling
> CDE users? I am using Solaris 8.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ilya.

 Perhaps you could look (if not already) at the dtsession man page for
 some information about CDE sessions.

 ATNT