Natural Order Development

At my office we have this thing called the "Dude Protocol." When I first started working here I thought it was a neat idea to make people a little more security conscience. The procedure is that if any workstation, laptop, or terminal is left logged in but without someone sitting there using it everyone is allowed (in fact directly ordered) to pull up the email client and send an email message to the "Fun" email list with the subject of "Dude" and then to LOCK the terminal. When people get these messages they are asked to reply back to ONLY the sender with the body of "Sweet." (See Dude Protocol for more details.)

Hitting the Windows-Key + L when walking away is a good habit. However, I have a number of development boxes I work on that are Linux systems as well as my Windows desktop. I wanted a single command I could click on or hot-key to lock all of them. After a lot of experimenting I figured out a nice little way to do this. The control point is my desktop (as I didn't want to open up a listener on Windows). I use SSH agent so that my private SSH key is unlocked while I work.

I have shortened the host names for this example, in reality they are full DNS names.

On my Linux boxes I have one script in ~/bin linked to the names lk (lock) and ul (unlock) scripts:

~/bin/lk and ~/bin/ul

#!/bin/bash

HOSTS="leelandlx1 leelandlx2"

echo ${0##*/} : running
if [ ${0##*/} == "lk" ] ; then
    for H in $HOSTS; do
        CMD="ssh $H killall -KILL synergyc synergys"
        echo $CMD
        $CMD
        CMD="ssh $H dcop --user leeland kdesktop KScreensaverIface lock"
        echo $CMD
        $CMD
    done
fi

if [ ${0##*/} == "ul" ] ; then
    for H in $HOSTS; do
        CMD="ssh $H dcop --user leeland kdesktop KScreensaverIface quit"
        echo $CMD
        $CMD
        CMD="ssh $H killall -KILL kdesktop_lock kdesktop_lock.bin"
        echo $CMD
        $CMD
        CMD="ssh $H /usr/X11R6/bin/xset -display :0 r on"
        echo $CMD
        $CMD
        CMD="ssh $H bin/start_synergy.sh"
        echo $CMD
        $CMD
    done
fi

On my Windows desktop I have the script unlock.bat and lock.bat. Here they are:

lock.bat

@echo off
plink leeland@leelandlx lk
rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation
REM taskkill /F /T /IM synergys.exe
taskkill /F /T /IM synergyc.exe

unlock.bat

@echo off
C:\bin\plink leeland@leelandlx ul
CD "C:\Program Files\Synergy+"

REM If Windows is the Synergy server use these lines
REM start /B StartSynergys.lnk
REM "C:\Program Files\Synergy+\bin\synergys.exe"  --daemon --debug WARNING --name leelanda1 --address :24800

REM If Windows is a Synergy client use these lines
start /B StartSynergyc.lnk
exit