On 21 Aug 2006 09:38:24 -0700, gineraso
<gineraso@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wrote a scipt to kick unauthorized user's off my Solaris 9
> workstation. Before I kill their session, I'd like to send a message
> to their session with something like: "You are not authorized to use
> this workstation. Your session will be killed."
>
> I've tried talk but I just want to send one message from command line
> Something like:
>
> echo "You are not authorized to use this workstation. Your session will
> be killed." {Session}
>
> Any suggestions?
>
If your script runs as root, you can get the device name of the user's
tty, and redirect the echo to that device. Or, if the user is using X,
open an xterm displaying the message on their display (you'll have to
use xauth).


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