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My kids use Steam to play games on the Mac. Each kid gets half an hour through parental controls time limit feature. However, it just locks their account and leaves the apps running. Steam can only have one instance running at a time on a single computer, so the second kid can't play on Steam after the first kid has got logged out, without me giving the first kids account some extra time, and then closing steam.

Is there a smarter way to do this? If the account was logged out at the end of the alloted time, the apps would close and no longer impact on other user accounts.

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    I haven't messed with parental controls in a while, but making a shell script and adding the two children accounts to the sudoers file for that one script would probably let them run a clickable script to kill all Steam processes on the Mac. That way if one child forgets to quit the app, the other could "cull" it.
    – bmike ♦
    Jan 30, 2016 at 22:57
  • That's a reasonable answer - certainly smarter than what I am currently doing.
    – dunxd
    Jan 31, 2016 at 20:41

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You can log out an account after so many minutes via the Security and Privacy preference:

Apple Icon > System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Advanced button and then set the Log out after minutes of inactivity to a low number. This closes all the Apps on my Mac and logs me off completely for more security.

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  • This setting affects all user accounts, not just the active user.
    – dunxd
    Jun 5, 2016 at 21:43

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