Task Scheduler Logoff and Username

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Guest

I am setting up a task to force a logoff for my child's userid at a specified
time. I am using the shutdown -F -L commnad. My question is which
username/password do I need to put in the Scheduled Task - mine (the
administrator), or the userid that I wish to be logged off?

My concern is that if I need to use her id, then she could disable the
forced logoff simply by changing her password - correct?
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

Julian said:
I am setting up a task to force a logoff for my child's userid at a specified
time. I am using the shutdown -F -L commnad. My question is which
username/password do I need to put in the Scheduled Task - mine (the
administrator), or the userid that I wish to be logged off?

My concern is that if I need to use her id, then she could disable the
forced logoff simply by changing her password - correct?

I would try this:
- Schedule the task to run under her name.
- Place the shutdown command inside a batch file.
- Run psloggedon.exe (www.sysinternals.com) as a
first command, to ascertain that your child is logged on
rather than you.
- Change the NTFS permissions of the job file in c:\Windows\Tasks
and the batch file so that she can read them but not modify or
delete them.
 
G

Guest

That would not solve the problem of if she changes her password and the
password in the Task doesn't match.

I have decided to run the Task as my ID and use psshutdown - o instead.
This seems to work.
 

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