[ale] too many logins

[Raj Wurttemberg]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Todor
Fassl
> The biggest problem is that the login screen gets crowded with the names
of
> other users who have logged in recently. Students don't see the box to
enter
> a different user ID so they reboot the machine which kills off any  matlab
or
> sage jobs somebody else might have started. After a reboot, the login
screen
> has maybe one or two names on it. There must be some fairly complex
> algorithm for determining who gets on that list because I cannot see a
> pattern.

Todor,

What about logging the users off after a period of inactivity (I'm a Citrix
admin as well so this is common in my world)?  Take a look at this URL.
Basically it uses a "screensaver" to log the session out after a specified
time of inactivity.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=956024

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,
/Raj