Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts

Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Pawel Loba]

I'd also be interested in having these questions answered.

Thanks, Pawel.

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, 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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Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Chris Nestrud]

Check /etc/security/limits.conf. That's the correct path on Debian,
anyway. You can set time limits, process limits, etc. Also look for a
daemon called ideled for inforcing idle users.

Chris



On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, 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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Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Victor Tsaran]

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

Re: 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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Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Victor Tsaran]

Thanks a lot. At least i know where to start!
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Nestrud" <ccn@uark.edu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts


> Check /etc/security/limits.conf. That's the correct path on Debian,
> anyway. You can set time limits, process limits, etc. Also look for a
> daemon called ideled for inforcing idle users.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, 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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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
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Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Victor Tsaran]

Hi, Kerry!
Thanks for ideas.
Vic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.eu.org>
To: <speakup@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
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
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khoath@lis.net.au
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Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I know I'm extremely late in answering this however in most systems you can define a file /etc/limits that is readable by root only and use the format:

username limits

where limits is a limit code followed with no space by the number of that limit.  For example to allow only 1 login session for rgallegos the line would read

rgallegos L1

I got this information off the shadow README.limits file is /usr/doc.  I'm running slackware so this might differ in other distros.

On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:47:04 -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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Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts

[Victor Tsaran]

Raul, this is a valuabel response. Thanks for it.
Vic

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts


> I know I'm extremely late in answering this however in most systems you
can define a file /etc/limits that is readable by root only and use the
format:
>
> username limits
>
> where limits is a limit code followed with no space by the number of that
limit.  For example to allow only 1 login session for rgallegos the line
would read
>
> rgallegos L1
>
> I got this information off the shadow README.limits file is /usr/doc.  I'm
running slackware so this might differ in other distros.
>
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:47:04 -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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>
>
>
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