How about running a script when the user logs on. This script will add X amount of time to the current time and schedule this in 'scheduled tasks' with the AT command. I know that there is a DLL call with rundll32.dll that can shut down a windows computer. I just do not know what it is.
My friend had something similar to what you are doing. He would have BIOS that the computer at a certain time and at night he has a task that would call the DLL and shut down his computer at 11:00pm. I hope this helps. ~B -----Original Message----- From: Tim V(@DZ) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: User Log off Does anyone know of group policies, software, configurations that will automatically log a user off after a specific amount of time? Basically, people staying logged in is bad for a whole slew of privacy and security reasons (as you all know). My users seem to have trouble understanding this. I know I can set a Windows 2000 Group Policy for "logout automatically" and "time to terminate session" or something like that, but I'm pretty sure that only applies to terminal services clients. I searched the web for a while and came up with 12Ghosts Shutdown which is a small app that "overloads" the shutdown of Windows and among other things has a inactivity timer. However, in testing, having picky programs (like Outlook 2002) open will effectively not let 12Ghosts log the user out. Has anyone else solved this issue with some sort of technology, I'm wearing thin on user eduacation right now... -tim PS I suppose I should let everyone know that the network is completely Windows 2000.
