[ale] too many logins

[Pete Hardie]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Todor Fassl <fassl.tod at gmail.com> wrote:

> The biggest problem is that the login screen gets crowded with the names
> of other users who have logged in recently. Students don't see the box to
> enter a different user ID so they reboot the machine which kills off any
> matlab or sage jobs somebody else might have started. After a reboot, the
> login screen has maybe one or two names on it. There must be some fairly
> complex algorithm for determining who gets on that list because I cannot
> see a pattern.
>

​That sounds like a built-in solution "If you don't want your MATLAB jobs
getting killed by a reboot, log off when you leave"
​


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