loggin out automatically

[Cameron Laird]

In article <omubqa.812.ln at anto.cuni.lan>,
Antonio Cuni  <TOGLIMIcuni at programmazione.it> wrote:
>trewornan wrote:
>
>> I am responsible for maintaining a PC in a hotel which is available for
>> use of guests, basically just e-mail and web browsing. We are currently
>> using a program called "timewatcher" which allows me to provide "access
>> codes" each code providing a particular period of access - 20, 30, 60
>> min or whatever
>
>You could use this script as the default shell for guests; it 
>automatically kills bash after a fixed amount of time:
>
>import os
>import time
>import signal
>
>MAX_LOGIN_TIME = 5 # seconds
>
>pid = os.fork()
>
>if pid == 0:
>    # the child
>    os.execv('/bin/bash', ['/bin/bash'])
>else:
>    # the parent
>    time.sleep(MAX_LOGIN_TIME)
>    os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
			.
			.
			.
Seconded.  Something like this will probably serve you
even better than your current "timewatcher".  I think
you'll end up pleasantly surprised at how simple and
flexible such operations are under Linux.
-- 

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