Re: [outkafe] Outkafe does not succeed in logging off if a user is playing videos...

[Ben M. <bwm...@gm...>]

Hi AJ,

2009/7/22 A.J. Venter <aj...@ou...>

> Hi Ben,
> Our windows userbase is fairly small so we don't really know the full
> scale of potential issues -it's good to get this kind of feedback, I
> don't use windows heavily myself but I believe my answers are not too
> far off, I'd appreciate if somebody can give better details :)
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Ben Metcalfe<bwm...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Outkafe has been running perfectly happily for several months now, but an
> > extremely honest cafe user told me the other day that if he's playing a
> > streaming video, the windows (XP Pro, SP3) log-off process doesn't happen
> -
> > until the video's finished.
> >
> > I could script something to kill all real-player / media-player / vlc
> > processes etc. as the outkafe client tries to log off the guest user, but
> > I'm wondering if there's something elegant and simple that I'm missing
> here?
> I think that's about the only way - clearly these processes are
> somehow overriding the outkafe client's system-calls to lock the
> screen, and windows is allowing them to do so.
> You could for an experiment see what happens if the video player
> window is minimized, if that works - then you can probably rather
> script it to just minimize all windows before executing the log-out ?


Thanks for the idea. It sounds more elegant than the option I'd envisaged.
I'll test it later today and let you know.


>
> >
> > Thoughts / experiences welcome.
> >
> > By the way, I've also found it necessary to remove the "users" group
> > entirely from the ACLS of taskmgr, tasklist, taskkill and of course
> regedit
> > etc. to prevent people "accidentally" hitting ctrl-alt-del and killing
> the
> > outkafe client with taskmanager. Again, if there's something conceptually
> > wrong about running outkafe under the guest user account, please let me
> > know.
> This is actually pretty standard procedure I think, outkafe doesn't
> itself know how to prevent users from doing that, it's up to the
> administrator to protect it.
>

Good to know I'm on the right track.

Thanks, Ben.


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