[BTP]

I occasionally leave my computer on and I would much rather prefer to have it secured. I can access it via SSH and reboot, but I want only to log myself out. Can that be done via logging in with SSH?

[gorickey]

You can with ARD....

[BTP]

thought of that.. It's not available right now.. Any other suggestions?

[awaspaas]

ssh in and kill loginwindow

[awaspaas]

or to be more detailed, ssh in to your machine, run top and find the PID for loginwindow (it'll be near the bottom) then type sudo kill ### where ### is the PID for loginwindow.

That ought to do it. If you can't find loginwindow there try ps -auwwwx | grep loginwindow

The PID should be in the first row, 2nd column, right after your username (whoever's logged in on that machine)

[BTP]

Really?

That will kick me to the login window!?

Excellent?

I'm going to try it. I'll know if it worked in the morning.

[Maelman]

Originally posted by awaspaas:
or to be more detailed, ssh in to your machine, run top and find the PID for loginwindow (it'll be near the bottom) then type sudo kill ### where ### is the PID for loginwindow.

That ought to do it. If you can't find loginwindow there try ps -auwwwx | grep loginwindow

The PID should be in the first row, 2nd column, right after your username (whoever's logged in on that machine)

you only need one 'w' (-auwx)

[awaspaas]

you're right - why did i think it was auwwwx i wonder?

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by awaspaas:
you're right - why did i think it was auwwwx i wonder?

Because ps -auxw produces this:

Code:
[arkham@flybook ~] ps -auxw | grep login
arkham    181   0.0  0.8    68576   4956  ??  
Ss    8:19PM   0:10.59 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/logi

while ps -auxww produces this:

Code:
[arkham@flybook ~] ps -auxww | grep login
arkham    181   0.0  0.8    68576   4956  ??  
Ss    8:19PM   0:10.59 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow console

The extra "w" makes the line that is displayed longer. I don't know that the third "w" does anything though.

[philzilla]

heh, i used to do this to my mate's mac, all the time. funny

by the way, you can be as short as this:
ps ax | grep loginwindow

[besson3c]

Be careful when doing this though, you won't have the opportunity to save unsaved changes and I'm not certain if it will quit "cleanly" (i.e. any files that are written to at that moment might become corrupt).