Does anyone know a way to force users to log off via a batch file?
I want the user to log on to a workstation or server, once they logged in a script will run automatically. Once the script has run, I want to force the user to log out of the server or workstation.
shutdown -l
Put that in your batch file. 🙂 Sounds like an insult doesn't it? This assumes XP.
-1 flag mean? I don't want to shutdown the server. I just want the user to be forced to logoff.
— ljCharlie
-L is a "dash" then an "L" for logoff. That code font makes it look like a 1 🙂. In a command prompt you can just type "shutdown" and it'll give you the options that go along with it. For example, "shutdown -s" actually will shutdown your PC.
— icyroadz
-l, but this does not run in a batch file. Is there a missing switch? Edit: Sorry this works in a batch file, but only for a local computer, I would like to know how to batch this over RPC.
— renegade X
Just in case anyone else has run into a similar problem:
Server 2003 environment with thin clients as workstations. I have a particular thin client setup to run specific programs upon logon (active directory, environment tab). As such, they need to logoff once a day so the program can shut down gracefully and then log back on to start the programs back up again. I created a batch file that accomplishes all of this at once. Run the batch file as soon as the user logs on.
@echo off
sleep 20
cd "C:\Program Files\Test\"
start /max test.exe
sleep 86100
tskill test
sleep 5
shutdown -l
The thin client uses RDP to connect and the connection is set to auto logon.