Am 2008-06-17 01:24:45, schrieb Dotan Cohen: > The wife uses one computer, I use another. We are both connected to > the internet via a router, as such we can SSH into one another's > boxen. Is there a way to pop up a message on the wife's machine, by > SSHing in and having root access. We both use KDE 3.x if it matters. I > notice that when I shutdown her machine remotely, she gets a popup > message stating that the computer is going down, so I see that the > basic infrastructure of having root pop up messages to users is in > place.
From your machine you could do a:
> ssh root wife-machine -c 'su - wife -c\"echo "I will kill your machine NOW!
> |xmessage -display :0.0 -file -\" && shutdown -r now'
or:
apt-get install linpopup
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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24V Electronic Engineer
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