Sending logout for a user fro a script shell

[Sirius Black]

Hi all,
I've to do a shell script which run an application and after having done it will logout the user .
I run this script in .profile of user an currently I succeed in doing it by this command:
kill -9 `who -mu | awk '{print $7}'`.
But I don't want to use the kill command.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
Fabrizio

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Fabrizio,

Have you tried the exit command?

Rgds,
Jeff

[Sirius Black]

If I use the exit command in shell script, the user will be not logged out from the machine but only from the shell script.
Thanks

[Marc Smith · Accepted solution]

Use the command "exec" to execute your script in the .profile.

[Sundar_7]

If all that user allowed to do is to run the application then you can also try to change the login shell of the user to reflect the application.

This way once the user is done with the application, he will be logged out.

[RAC_1]

The code will look something like this. .profile of the user.

usual stuuff.
application to execute
exit

This should do what you want

Anil

[Sundar_7]

If your application is say /opt/app/app2/binary then

# usermod -s /opt/app/app2/binary username

Now whenever the user logs in your application gets executed and when he exits out of the application, the user is logged out of the system.

[Sirius Black]

Yes I can put it as the start program the only one problem is that the script receive some parameters and when I tried to put this parameters in the startup program, but it doesn't accept this parameters.
Hi all
Fabrizio

[RAC_1]

Did you export the parameter, so that it becomes available to program??

export SAM=123

Anil

[Sirius Black]

Hi Marc Smith ,
the exec before the command it's the best way but how this command works ?
Thanks Fabrizio

[Marc Smith]

You should just put at the end of the .profile this:

exec <script_name>