how to limit users connection??

[kat115]

Hi,

Can someone tell me how to limit users connection? I want to allow users to have only one or two sessions at a time and didn't find how to do?

Can someone also tell me how to specify that i want to authorize some users to connect only from a specific IP address? Do I need a firewall or someone like that?

Thanx a lot for helping!!
kat

 

[olli2003]

Hi Kat115


Please try vi Smit!

Security & Users - Users - Change / Show Characteristics of a User - <USER>
In there you'll find a lot of variables to change.

Regards
Oliver

 

[kat115]

I did that already and didn't find any parameter that matches...

 

[jpor]

Kat. I currently have set-up in each users .profile this script:

COUNT=`who | grep ${LOGNAME} | wc -l`
if test
[ $COUNT -gt 1 ]
then

echo " YOU ARE ALREADY LOGGED IN "
echo ""
echo " NUMBER OF TIMES LOGGED IN : $COUNT"
echo " "
echo " PLEASE LOG OUT BEFORE LOGGING IN"
echo " "
echo " ANY PROBLEMS CONTACT I.T."
sleep 6
exit 1
fi

this allows a user to login once. But can be a bit of a pain if he/she has not closed their Telnet session properly.

The count is goverened in this part of the script:

[ $COUNT -gt 1 ]

if you want to allow 2 logins. Then it will be like this:

[ $COUNT -gt 2 ]

Hope that helps?

Jon.

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