Bug#703710: killer CRON disabled on diskless workstations

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Mike Gabriel]
> Hi Petter,

Hi.
> If killer works reliably, then: yes (for diskless workstations).

As far as I know, it work reliably.  But not quite like you think it
is working.

> Otherwise, diskless workstations (not sure about thin clients,
> actually) will not get affected by shutdown-at-night if users forgot
> to log out.

Killer will kill processes for people not logged into the machine, not
throw out logged in users.  It get rid of leftover processes.

> The expected behaviour would be for diskless workstations:
> 
>   o killer ends still-running / not-logged-off sessions after 6h of
> session duration
>   o shutdown-at-night turns of the diskless machine within the next hour

I am not sure killer is the autologout-mechanism you are looking for.
shutdown-at-night would work if you had such autologin mechanism.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen