sillysi

HP-UX **** B.10.20.

[Edited by sillysi - 8/7/2002 3:45:50 PM]

sillysi

Is it possible to set, per UNIX userid how many times they can be logged in at any one time? We have a couple of users who use SmartTerm and fire up numerous logins thus taking all our license allocation for our back office system.

Si.

stevencotton

Which flavour of UNIX?

camk

yes its possible by changing the logon script to cat through output of a who command and grep out the users anme, count > than X and exit else continue.

Cheers
Cammy

stevencotton

I'd actually use PAM for this, the pam_limits module. Might take a little while to set up nicely but it's the Right Way to do it. Some applications modify utmp before a user has even been given access to the system.

edit: If you don't want to mess around with PAM on HP-UX you could always try idled. It's always better than messing around with modifying /etc/profile to run a script to parse output etc.

Steve.


[Edited by stevencotton - 8/7/2002 3:54:49 PM]

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

you can also do it if the machine is a trusted system but if it is not, then you can't do it under the normal OS

stevencotton

Eh?

Wurzel

iTrader: (1)

Steve you obviously now something I don't!!!! mail me with what your proposals are please.

steve_luther@hp.com

stevencotton

I'm all confused now.

But not any more!


[Edited by stevencotton - 8/8/2002 2:24:45 PM]