Managers,
Thank you greatly for your help. Those that replied were:
Jeffrey Pyne
Steve Gauthier
Douglas S. Hagan
Kevin Sheehan
Matthew Stier
Bryan Blackburn
My original question followed by the answers I
received follow.
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Managers,
Is there a way to limit the number of concurrent sessions
a user is able to create? For example, if I wanted to limit a
user to at most 1 session when logged into a Solaris 2.6
server, while allowing other users the usual virtually unlimited
number of connections that are possible, would there be a
way to enforce this?
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We had to do this at a company I used to work for once. A new
application
was rolled out which turned out to be unstable, so each user was limited
to
a maximum of one connection. This was done in somewhat of a kludgey
manner.
All of the users we wanted to exempt happened to be in the same group
(sysadm). All we did was put a statement in /etc/profile to the effect
of:
if [ `who | grep $user | wc -l` -gt 1 -a "$group" != "sysadm" ]
then
banner "MAX SESSIONS REACHED"
exit
fi
(and the values of $user and $group had been set previously in this
particular /etc/profile). This isn't the exact code, but that's the
gyst of
it. There may be a more elegant way to do it, but this worked for us.
> Jeffrey Pyne
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I believe so - used to be called ASET I think, but Sun has a product
that allows you to limit time of login, number of sessions, &c.
l & h,
kev
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There is a freeware application you can get called "idled". Not only
can it monitor for user idleness, it can enforce the session limits you
are trying to implement.
http://www.darkwing.com/idled/
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