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The README file mentions the wrong pathnames in its installation, instructing the user to install the binary in "/usr/etc", rather than the "/usr/sbin" directory, for example. It also has a typo at the very end. These errors have been fixed.
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TIMEOUTD 1.5 by Shane Alderton
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Timeoutd is a programme which allows you to control the following
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characteristics on a user by user and/or group by group basis for
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each tty on your system:
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- maximum idle time
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- maximum time per session
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- maximum time per day
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- times when people can/can't login on specific ttys
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To build timeoutd, you should make any changes to the makefile for
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your preferred compilation options, then simply:
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make
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The next step is to install a timeouts file in /etc specifying
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the parameters for each line/user/group combination. You can use
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the sample file provided in the distribution as a starting point
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after reading the timeoutd.8 and timeouts.5 man pages.
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Once you have installed the timeouts file in /etc, you can type:
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make install
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to install the timeoutd binaries and man pages.
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Then it is just a matter of running /usr/sbin/timeoutd. You may want
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to add a line to your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local (or whatever) to run
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timeoutd at boot time.
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If you wish, you can also modify your login programme to have timeoutd
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run at login time to check whether each user is allowed to login or not.
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Otherwise, users who are not allowed to login will be logged off within
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1 minute of logging in.
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Another (albeit less certain) way of doing this is to put the following
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line in /etc/profile near the top of the file:
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/usr/etc/timeoutd `whoami` `basename \`tty\`` || exit
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Please send bugs, comments, suggestions to:
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shanea@bigpond.net.au (Shane Alderton)
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