Auto Logoff for inactivity

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to come up with a way on a local workstation to be able to log out an admin if they forget to log off for the day. I was thinking something like 5 minutes of being idle to force user to log off. I went through several forums, including this site, but nothing seems to work. I tried creating a scheduled task and tested it for one minute, but it doesn't work. I also tried using some third party program called "lithnet" and nothing happens after one minute.

This would be for a windows 10 workstation. Any idea on how I could set this up?

Answer 1

You can have your task or script use logoff command.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/logoff

also
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190723-00/?p=102727

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Answer 2

Here is something that logs off any Idle user - it took a while, but take a look :
https://bobby.kearan.net/2022/06/19/log-off-idle-user-with-quser-and-powershell/