Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:50:37 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How come accounting limits of login.conf still doesn't work?! Message-ID: <Pine.HPX.4.05.10012120845560.15385-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012120800140.23554-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
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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 :-) Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Sr. Software Engineer, Palisade Systems --- ghelmer@palisadesys.com Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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