Re: More than one Logon Problem

From: base60 (nobody_at_whitehouse.com)
Date: 10/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:15:57 GMT

Mark McWilliams wrote:
> I'm having a problem with my users logging into more than one terminal at a
> time. They'll go in and log in for someone so that they can have features
> that the person their logging into for doesn't have which totally defeats
> our security. I went into SMIT and looked at the settings for users and
> didn't see a field for the amount of times a user can log on or how many
> sessions a person is allowed. I saw a field for "Allowed logon times" but I
> believe this is for time of day. Does anyone know how to stop a person from
> logging in more than once?
>
> Thanks.....Mark

If you want this, read the /etc/security/user file... specifically the
auth* comments.

I'd have to agree that this is really a security/mgmt issue, though.

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