Password expiry notifications

[James McDonald]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:04:52PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Dominic Lepiane <archangel at nibble.bz> wrote:
> > On June 9, 2006 05:26 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of an alert mechanism that can be programmed to  pop
> > > up on a user's desktop in a gui (KDE or other) environment - sort of a
> > > KDE cron function?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> >
> > Since you're already generating some notices, you could have a script open a
> > kdialog:
> >
> > http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kdialog/t1.html
> 
> Interesting, but not quite. The basic problem is that the notice
> generationg/determination occurs outside of the kde desktop. What I'm
> looking for is a sort of wall function that will popup a dialog box on
> the current kde desktop, so that the user can't miss it, and I would
> want this function to be timed, ie once an hour.
> >
> > I don't know if this helps much.  I just log people out who remained logged-in
> > endlessly.
> >
> 
> Oh, come on now. We have 120+ desktop users, and they certainly have
> every right to remain logged in as long as they choose. What a kooky
> concept!
> 
Have you every had someone send an email as another logged in user? Can 
be quit damaging to the company depending on what it is.

I have people stay logged on too ... But in the end it's nice for them 
to log off when they go home...