Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi, Kerry!
Thanks for ideas.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts


> 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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