This shouldn't be too tough. I'd look at radius for authorizing and accounting. It's built for this kind of stuff. As for automatically logging people out this should be too tough. Just fire off a program when the xdm/gdm session starts. This little helper program could wait for a message from the box where your radius server runs. When the time is running out it can send a little message to the helper giving it a 5-minute warning. The helper would fire up a little message box (I believe gnome has a mini-app that'll do this--just display a text message) warning the user their time is running out. When the time actually runs out you can just kill the X server--or perhaps do something a little more graceful.
ChrisHellberg wrote: > I want to set up an internet cafe at a hostel and am investigating > various ways of going about things. I think windows 2000 would be the > best os to have the clients on, but the biggest problem is logging the > pc's out when their credit expires. > > I'm a strong advocate of Debian GNU/Linux and open source so I would > liie to use an opensource solution but not too sure if the clientele > would be that comfortable with X. That being said, if I decide to go > down the linux path, what would be the best way to log a workstation out > when credit expires? I rekon it's a matter of creating a simple TCP/IP > connection to a server and listening to logout requests :/ > > Cheers > > Chris > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
