Password expiry notifications

[Dominic Lepiane]

On Saturday 10 June 2006 08:52, Collins Richey wrote:
> We've drifted a fair ways off topic here, but let me close this OT
> topic from my standpoint with a few comments:
>
> 1. Users at our facility only have permission to login to their own
> PC(s) and a few selected servers (access is strictly limited).
> 2. Users are instructed to (software) lock their PCs whenever they
> leave their work area.
> 3. Users are welcome to remain logged in until the end of time if they
> choose. Frequently they leave long running software builds in progress
> on their machines overnight. Frequently they have many dozens of
> windows open that would be a time consuming and potentially
> error-prone session restoration process if they were required to
> logout.
> 4. Access to the internet is controlled by repressive corporate
> policies such that even admins can't usually do anything useful on the
> internet. We usually have to download and burn software CDs at home.
> In one respect they are justified in this repressive policy. All email
> and much of the corporate applications farm is WinCrap based and quite
> fragile, and they were caught by one of the major viruses a few years
> back. Since the age of repression started, nothing has gotten through.
>
> Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
>
> Does anyone know a way to schedule a popup to run on a KDE desktop by
> external means and/or have a KDE application automatically start and
> listen for external signals/data to accomplish the same purpose?


This article may be of some interest to you:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/407

It does require the installation of an additional application and I haven't 
even read the whole thing through, but I figured I'd post it before I forgot.

-- 
Dominic Lepiane

"When I read of the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henry Youngman

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