Raul, this is a valuabel response. Thanks for it. Vic ******* ******* ******* have you thought of visiting Cybertsar's Internet Kingdom? It is still alive! Here is the URL: http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~vtsaran/ ******* ******* ******* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at 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 > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Raul A. Gallegos mailto:raul at asmodean.net > icq and evoice # 5283055 > http://www.asmodean.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup