loggin out automatically

Ken Starks straton at lampsacos.demon.co.uk
Sun Nov 3 12:00:45 EST 2002


In article <3DC451D3.4060907 at cyberspace.org>, trewornan
<treworn at cyberspace.org> writes
>> 
>> Some combination of the above, I'd say.  Some people might suggest that you 
>> were silly to not just /try/ your command in a python interpreter, e.g.--
>> 
>
>Good point but I don't have one running on linux and the installation of 
> linux on another computer is being considered but is dependent on the 
>feasibility of some system to limit access on a timed basis.
>
>Anyway thanks for letting me know why it won't work - I'll look more 
>thoroughly at the linux documentation for possible answers.
>
>M
>
>
You can get python to run a telnet session to the linux machine,
without human intervention. change to super user, change to
any other user, kill processes, whatever.
Better not to send your root password though.


-- 
Ken Starks



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