Nor should they be.
If (or as some would have it) when someone really does crack the
security blanket we enjoy using OS-X, something like this can be used
to not only hijack your machine but keep you from re-gaining control,
until the panic passes and you unplug the machine, find the OS
installer disk and start over.
Jerry
On Jan 23, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
> I was asked yesterday if there is a utility for Mac OS X that can be
> used to disable an account on a machine at, say, 11:00 PM and keep it
> disabled until the next morning. If the user is logged into the
> account at 11:00, she should be automatically logged out.
>
> I can think of ugly ways to do this with tools like cron and
> Applescript, but they're not easy.
>
>
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