Account can only be used to login one at a time

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Tue Oct 5 18:47:55 GMT 2004


On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:39:09PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
:
> On the server-side, we have quite a few problems that make this hard:
> 
>  - How do you tell the client has 'logged out':
>   - There is no reliable 'logged out' message from the clients.
>   - There is no connection that the client *must* hold open to remain
> 'logged on'.
>  - What happens if the client (holding the session) reboots, or worse is
> just unplugged?

What if there were simply a setting that said "user U may only log in from 
system S".  Ever.  The sysadmin could change that if/when the user moves 
to a new desk.

Simplifies the problem.

:)

Chris -)-----

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