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Re: logout and auto-login

There's nothing stopping Cocoa programmers from #include'ing the appropriate Carbon-world headers and using the Apple Event functions directly. You are absolutely allowed to use this feature of the system, and in fact encouraged to do so. On the documentation side, we're still trying to get the Cocoa documentation itself more in order, before tackling some of these integration problems. We are definitely aware that some exist, however, and they're on the list of things we'd like to address in the short to medium term.

As to whether this is an appropriate solution to the original question, I sort of doubt it, as the logout Apple Event allows the user to cancel the logout. I believe the original question was for a way to "log the user out, gracefully but by force" or some such.

Matt Rollefson (Rollie)
Manager: Cocoa & Developer Tools
Technical Publications
Apple Computer, Inc.


On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 02:26 AM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:

On Sunday, December 9, 2001, at 12:51 PM, Jake wrote:

It is a security application. If it detects an anomaly, it is to terminate
the current session and logout the user "gracefully by force". It appears
that killing either the "loginwindow" or "WindowServer" does the job. But
I can't seem to be able to get the pid of those process from within my
program without resorting to a shell scripts: getpgrp() doesn't yet exist
in OSX, and I can't walk the process table because of permission issues.
(ps is suid). Any suggestions?

IMHO, the appropriate solution would be to send an AppleEvent to LoginWindow.app to logout the user.

Yet I'm a bit dubitative to ever see a description on how to do this, since it's the same issue that the one with the restart and shutdown Apple events.

It looks like this is a feature that we are not allowed to use.
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