Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-05 Thread David A. Bandel
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:07:24 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream: > Nobody has mentioned it, but there's a real danger that you could wind > up unable to administer your system. This is particularly true because > the original question referred to the root user.

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Aaron Grewell
True. If you only want one console, use NetWare. ;-) On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 16:07, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Nobody has mentioned it, but there's a real danger that you could wind > up unable to administer your system. This is particularly true because > the original question referred to the root

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Nobody has mentioned it, but there's a real danger that you could wind up unable to administer your system. This is particularly true because the original question referred to the root user. Suppose something goes wrong with the on allowed root connection. What then? You could even find yourse

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Federico Voges babbled on about: > Hi, > > pam_limits??? sweet! so pam has a use after all ;) thanks -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf Meeting, n.: An assembly of people coming together to decide what person or

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Since login is run by inetd, you could configure tcpwrappers to run a script to check if the user is already logged on, perhaps. Joel ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Net Llama
A possibly far less complicated solution (although along the same lines) is to just have the shell in /etc/passwd changed to /bin/false (or something equally useless) each time a person logs in, and then changed back to /bin/bash when they log out. The only problem with this is it could all go ba

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone know of any hacks/methods/etc to limit a particular userid to > only one > login at a time? > > i.e. admin #1 logs in as root to do something, meanwhile admin #2 > sshes into > machine as root to do something, but is not allowed to log in

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, pam_limits??? README.pam_limits from eServ 2.3.1: - - --- pam_limits module: Imposing user limits on login. THEORY OF OPERATION: First, make a root-only-read

Re: allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread John Hiemenz
On Friday 04 January 2002 12:17 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote : > anyone know of any hacks/methods/etc to limit a particular userid to only > one login at a time? > > i.e. admin #1 logs in as root to do something, meanwhile admin #2 sshes > into machine as root to do something, but is not allowed to

allowing sinlge-login only?

2002-01-04 Thread Douglas J Hunley
anyone know of any hacks/methods/etc to limit a particular userid to only one login at a time? i.e. admin #1 logs in as root to do something, meanwhile admin #2 sshes into machine as root to do something, but is not allowed to log in. just trying to keep people from tripping over each other ;)