UNIX daemon for limiting user time on the machine.
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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. |
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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)