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UNIX daemon for limiting user time on the machine.
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Petar Kapris e6c8f1b6c1 Remove most platform-specific ifdef workarounds 
Since most of the #ifdef hacks are meant to facilitate the use of the
daemon under older versions of SunOS which didn't have many of the utmp
library functions and facilities most modern Unices have, and since they
significantly hamper the readability of the code, they have been
removed. For portabilities sake, further changes will have to be made
anyways, many modern systems, such as newer versions of FreeBSD, don't
support utmp anymore, and require use of utmpx instead. The program will
have to be changed accordingly.

The getdisc() function has been almost entirely stripped, and now is
just a stub that always returns N_TTY. This will have to be changed
quickly, so that the function returns the actual tty discipline, but
works in most cases.
2020-12-16 23:20:09 +01:00
debian Added changelog 2009-05-31 18:52:55 -06:00
Makefile Add missing make dependency in `install' target 2020-12-10 13:48:06 +01:00
README Fix documentation errors and typos in README 2020-11-24 21:58:09 +01:00
timeoutd.8 Add exit statuses to new manpage section 2020-12-10 15:55:14 +01:00
timeoutd.c Remove most platform-specific ifdef workarounds 2020-12-16 23:20:09 +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)