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to restrict no of logins per user

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sclganesh

sclganesh

IS-IT--Management
Nov 17, 2002
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I would like to restrict no of logins per user as 2.
Kindly help.
 
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Hi:

Assumingg LOGNAME is set, how about placing this line in /etc/profile:

[ `w -h -s| cut -d" " -f1 | grep "^$LOGNAME$" | wc -l` -gt 2 ] && exit 0

 
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Thank you very much. The script is working OK.
 
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