Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:55:52 +0600 (NOVT) From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How come accounting limits of login.conf still doesn't work?! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012141253560.30198-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.05.10012120845560.15385-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu>
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Guy Helmer wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > There've been a nasty situation for quite a long time already with > > various accounting limits of login.conf... > > > > How come that all kewl features, such as sessionlimits, idletimes, etc all > > are documented in man login.conf(5), but never seemed to work? It's 4.2 > > already, and it still doesn't make any difference? > > The problem is that no process hangs around after a login to enforce these > limits. > > I have some dusty code that enforces time limits that I've been thinking > about improving (to handle all the "kewl" features you mention) and > bringing into (or invoking from) login(1). It would mean an extra process > hanging around for each login, but processes are cheap :-) So, is your code in usable stage and available as a patch? Do you have any plans committing into main source tree? Thanks. -- With all due respect, DAN Fe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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