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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Login/Logout script Post 302374115 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Monday 23rd of November 2009 12:49:58 PM
Old 11-23-2009
Remote login must be turned on, or some add-on app must accept commands on a listening port. Third party apps include LANDesk, LanRev, or even ARD (not technically an add-on, since the agent is included with the OS.

If remote login is enabled on B, then ssh <an_admin_username>@B
enter the password for that admin username, then type the command to perform.

I find it easier to put a loginhook and/or a logouthook on the machine, then no remote login needs to occur from then on.

The -hook files contain the path to the script to perform if logname is the name in question, else exit. If you've logged in remotely, you'll need to grep the output of "who" for the username you are looking for.

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/script

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /path/to/script

Then, no matter whether you are there to issue a command remotely or not, the scripts can run whenever the target username logs in.

If you need to remove the login or logout hooks:
defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
and/or
defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook

You could delete the scripts too, but without the hooks calling them, they are basically just text files with commands. /path/to/script is generally somewhere users don't mess with. I use /usr/local/sbin/, myself.
 

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LOGIN(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						  LOGIN(3)

NAME
login, logout, logwtmp -- login utility functions (DEPRECATED) SYNOPSIS
#include <util.h> void login(struct utmp *ut); int logout(const char *line); void logwtmp(const char *line, const char *name, const char *host); DESCRIPTION
The login(), logout(), and logwtmp() functions are DEPRECATED; use pututxline(3) instead. These functions operate on the database of current users in /var/run/utmpx and the system log file. Superuser permission is required. The login() function updates the /var/run/utmpx files with user information contained in ut (after converting to a struct utmpx, as described in pututxline(3)). The logout() function removes the entry from /var/run/utmpx corresponding to the device line. The logwtmp() function adds an entry to the system log file. Since login() will add the appropriate entry during a login, logwtmp() is usu- ally used for logouts. RETURN VALUES
logout() returns non-zero if it was able to find and delete an entry for line, and zero if there is no entry for line in /var/run/utmpx. However, there is no error indication due to lack of permissions. FILES
/dev/* /var/run/utmpx SEE ALSO
pututxline(3), utmp(5), utmpx(5) BSD
December 14, 1995 BSD
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