From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail4.kc.rr.com(fe4.rdc-kc.rr.com[24.94.163.51]) (2080 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:13:31 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from rgallegos ([24.163.151.231]) by mail4.kc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:13:33 -0500 From: "Raul A. Gallegos" To: "speakup@braille.uwo.ca" Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:21:28 -0500 Reply-To: "Raul A. Gallegos" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <007201c01b60$12608660$bbe5f79b@wang> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Time restrictions on users' accounts Message-ID: <051423313171790FE4@mail4.kc.rr.com> List-Id: 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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup Raul A. Gallegos mailto:raul@asmodean.net icq and evoice # 5283055 http://www.asmodean.net