Task Scheduler Logoff and Username

[julian]

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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?

 

[Guest]

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"Julian" <Julian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A2CFB393-6425-42C0-B6E6-51AAA258BE60@microsoft.com...
> 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.

 

[julian]

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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.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "Julian" <Julian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A2CFB393-6425-42C0-B6E6-51AAA258BE60@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
>
>
>