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UNIX daemon for limiting user time on the machine.
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kappa 2bd4a73b56 Remove unneeded files: dump_wtmp.c and VERSION 
The file dump_wtmp.c is not a part of the timeoutd program itself, but a
seperate diagnostic tool, which, if it must be used at all, belongs in a
seperate package. I've decided to simply remove it from this repository.
It's name is also a misnomer, as it's programed to actually dump the
utmp file, not the wtmp file. It also only dumps records written on the
current date, and only some of the fields. It seemed that fixing the
program would require more effort that it's worth, as I'm currently not
using the program for any diagnostic purpose, and there are now better
replacements for it, such as the Linux package utmpdump. Therefore, I
decided to remove it and cease working on it.

The VERSION file didn't seem to be too useful, as the version of the
program is stated elsewhere, the VERSION file is actually out of date
with the version in the timeoutd.c file, and the particular version of
the software doesn't even matter currently.

Therefore, both files have been deleted.
2020-11-25 11:28:58 +01:00
debian Added changelog 2009-05-31 18:52:55 -06:00
Makefile Completely rewrite broken Makefile 2020-11-24 21:44:10 +01:00
README Fix documentation errors and typos in README 2020-11-24 21:58:09 +01:00
timeoutd.8 Imported Debian patch 1.5-10.1 2009-01-04 23:11:59 -07:00
timeoutd.c Clean up lines that cause warning messages in GCC 2020-11-24 23:46:14 +01:00
timeouts Imported Debian patch 1.5-10.1 2009-01-04 23:11:59 -07:00
timeouts.5 Imported Debian patch 1.5-10.1 2009-01-04 23:11:59 -07:00

README 

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)