Restricting multiple terminal logins from same username

[David Collier-Brown]

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Godwin Monis wrote:
> I want to restrict the users such that a particular user cannot do
> simultaneous logins from more than one workstation. i.e. if he/she
> wants to login to a particular workstation he/she will have to
> logout from the previous workstation.

	I can think of two ways, one Windows-flavored,
	the other Unix-flavored.

	Windows:
	Use a login script saved on a Samba share that checks
	a file to see if the user is logged on elsewhere, and
	if not updates that same file.  This will fail if the
	user tends to shut off their machine instead of logging out.

	Unix:
	Use the "preexec" option to run a script that
	parses smbstatus output, and return non-zero
	if the user is already connected.  This will require 
	a keepalive setting of 30 seconds to one minute,
	so that samba will clean the connections to powered-off
	or crashed Windows machines. And Samba 2.0.7 or so.

--dave
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