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Safely log off Linux users

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Here are two ways to log your kids off your Linux box...
The second method simply unlocks the other user's session, allowing you to do, well, pretty much anything. I trust that you will only do good things, such as save the user's open documents, before logging the user off.

This method works whether the user is running a KDE or Gnome session, although the commands are different. However, you don't have to start a new KDE or Gnome session; you can use a terminal or even do this over telnet or ssh.
 read more | mail this link | score:6976 | -Ray, July 21, 2006
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