logon once patch

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Aug 19 21:45:45 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 17:07, Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Attached find a patch that might be more interesting for others, and maybe even
> for inclusion in the mainstream samba. I've written it for schools that want
> the students in a classroom to log in to the workstations only once. The
> teacher resets the 'O' flag for all students, and the first interactive login
> sets it. The second one is denied with ACCOUNT_RESTRICTION.
> 
> What do you think? Is this worth applying?

What about storing the actual count?  That way, the
administrator/administrator's scripts can determine how many logins a
user is permitted.

But I agree, it is a useful extension.  I wish the auth subsystem
allowed it to be easily added as an extension module, but anyway :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at samba.org
Authentication Developer, Samba Team            http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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