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Date:      Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:37:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Stephane Legrand <Stephane.Legrand@wanadoo.fr>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: does login.conf limitations work ?
Message-ID:  <199904241337.PAA01205@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904241133200.25284-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
References:  <199904231110.NAA00657@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904241133200.25284-100000@freja.webgiro.com>

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Andrzej Bialecki writes:
 > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
 > 
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > i was wondering if the limitations that are supposed to be enforced via
 > > the login.conf mechanism do really work...
 > > 
 > > In particular, i have tried (on 3.1 something, but don't think that
 > > current is much different in this respect) to enforce the daily etc.
 > > login times but the system seems to ignore them.
 > > 
 > > I think /etc/login.conf is properly parsed, because if i assign a user
 > > to a class that is not defined in login.conf i get complaints, but
 > > other than that i am unable to limit login time...
 > > 
 > > Any hints ?
 > 
 > That's also my impression. I glipmsed the whole source tree and I couldn't
 > find any place where the limits are enforced. BTW. what entity should
 > enforce login time limits? Kernel? Some user-space daemon?
 > 

To report a login.conf success, i've used on a 2.2.8 system the
"cputime" ressource limit. I set it to zero and that worked very
well. So may be only some limits are implemented ?

Stephane Legrand.

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