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Christophe Drevet
Asked: 2015-12-17 03:04:18 +0800 CST

Is this possible to deny logout with bash shell .bash_logout?

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I wish to use this .bash_logout script to check some things before the user log out and possibly deny to log out if things to do remains.

My use case is to check if a git repo is clean before allowing the user to log out.

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  1. Best Answer

    From man bash:

       When  a  login  shell  exits, bash reads and executes commands from the
   file ~/.bash_logout, if it exists.

    The current login shell is on its way out when ~/.bash_logout runs. But it doesn't prevent you from starting another login shell, which will give the illusion that logout was prevented:

    exec bash -l
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