UNIX daemon for limiting user time on the machine.
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The function getdisc doesn't seem to serve any purpose when it comes to checking user idle time, by the time it's called, the part of check_idle which checks access time to the terminal will have already finished, and there is no reason that a check for idle time on a terminal should act any differently based on the line discipline. Since the function serves no purpose, and the call and check of it's result seems like it only introduces a potential bug, and has no reason to be there, the function has been removed, as well as the code in chk_timeout which calls it. NOTE: at this point, the function didn't even check the line discipline, i gutted it so it would only return the constant N_TTY, i was planning on rewriting the function to get the terminal line discipline in a more portable way, since the original way wasn't, but ultimately decided it didn't even need to exist in the first place. |
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| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
| timeoutd.8 | ||
| timeoutd.c | ||
| timeouts | ||
| timeouts.5 | ||
TIMEOUTD 1.5 by Shane Alderton Timeoutd is a programme which allows you to control the following characteristics on a user by user and/or group by group basis for each tty on your system: - maximum idle time - maximum time per session - maximum time per day - times when people can/can't login on specific ttys To build timeoutd, you should make any changes to the makefile for your preferred compilation options, then simply: make The next step is to install a timeouts file in /etc specifying the parameters for each line/user/group combination. You can use the sample file provided in the distribution as a starting point after reading the timeoutd.8 and timeouts.5 man pages. Once you have installed the timeouts file in /etc, you can type: make install to install the timeoutd binaries and man pages. Then it is just a matter of running /usr/sbin/timeoutd. You may want to add a line to your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local (or whatever) to run timeoutd at boot time. If you wish, you can also modify your login programme to have timeoutd run at login time to check whether each user is allowed to login or not. Otherwise, users who are not allowed to login will be logged off within 1 minute of logging in. Another (albeit less certain) way of doing this is to put the following line in /etc/profile near the top of the file: /usr/etc/timeoutd `whoami` `basename \`tty\`` || exit Please send bugs, comments, suggestions to: shanea@bigpond.net.au (Shane Alderton)