Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Kerry Hoath]

There are a multitude of ways of doing this.
Firstly what sort of users and how many?
There is a file in /etc/porttime or similar that sets login restrictions as
far as login is concerned.
If you want session limits you want something like timeoutd or idled to
inforce them. If you want multiple login protection you can get programs to
do it or write a script that looks in the who output for duplicates and kills
them off.

If you want databases of users, time limits, multiple login restrictions,
bandwidth statistics, etc etc etc look into installing a RADIUS
(Remote authentication dial-in user service) daemon,
and portslave or similar to talk to it.
Many isps use little Linux boxes to do this and backend the whole shabang into
an mysql database of mamoth proportions.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 12:47:04PM -0700, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Hello, listers!
> I know this is off topic, but knowing how many experienced Linux users are
> there on this list, I decided to take a risk!
> Where would I look to find the inroamtion on how to put time restrictions on
> users' accounts. For instance, say, I would like to log users out if they
> stay online for more than two hours. Or, say, I would like to deny users
> from loging in more than one time.
> I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
> Best,
> Vic
> 
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