On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 06:33 -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > Good idea about getting the idle time from the w command in the > .bash_logout. However again that would be relying on a file that the > user can modify (their own .bash_logout file). That is unless you > were to chmod the .bash_profile and .bash_logout to give execute only > access to the user. Then they cannot override or change the settings > in .bash_profile, or change the w command in the .bash_logout. Yes they can. They have write access to their own homespace, so they can change the files in there. They can delete that file and create their own replacement. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.