[ale] Restricting Login times.

[gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu (gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu)]

On 29 Jul, Mike Kachline wrote:
> 
> 	One thing which I remember from NT Server is that I could 
> restrict users as to the times / days which they could login, on a 
> per-user-basis. Ie, I could restrict my (non-admin) account from logging 
> onto the machine anytime between 2pm to 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 
> for instance.
> 	Is there a way to do likewise in Linux? (Running RH 4.2)
> 
> 	While I am on the topic of restricting login shells. How would
> I implement an "inactivity timeout" for users whom have logged into my 
> box and simply sit there for some duration of time?

I think what you want is a program called clobberd (or something like
that).  I know rpms are availabe in the powertools directory on
redhat....  I'm sure there are other packages that do similar things.

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                 gt1355b at prism.gatech.edu