Linux, samba and one logon per user.

[Robert Dahlem]

George,

On 26 Oct 2000 13:35:11 +0000, George Farris wrote:

>I'm setting up a lab full of users here at the college and really 
>need to be able to restrict a user to a single login at any given 
>time.  Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions about this?
>
>Once the user has logged in at a workstation they wouldn't be able to
>use another workstation until they logged out of the one they were 
>on.

You can use

	preexec close = yes
	preexec = /some/script %U # or %u, you may have to test

In /some/script you could check the output of "smbstat -u $1" and 
react on the outcome.

Regards,
        Robert



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