Re: configure max login count

From: John DuBois (spcecdt_at_armory.com)
Date: 10/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:49:02 -0000

In article <dj268l$6gl$1@wwwint.rsw-orga.de>,
Dieter Springer <dspringer@rsw-orga.de> wrote:
>In openserver 5.0.X i need to limit the possible logins for each user. Each
>user should only be able to login twice.
>In the system documentation i only found info about limiting the number of
>procecces per user but this is no help.
>Currently i do a workaround in the profiles using finger|grep username|wc -l
>but the profiles get changed from time to time during
>application updates. Maybe there is a os-feature to help on this matter.
>Any suggestions?

Move the check from the users' .profiles into /etc/profile, with exceptions for
those who shouldn't be limited.
Also, 'finger -fq username' avoids the need for 'grep username'.

        John 

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