User authentication tracing

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hi Davide,
You would probably just want to have them shot ;-)
Just kidding...
Actually if they do a proper shutdown of windows before turning the pc off,
the 
os should disconnect any network drives as a part of it's graceful shutdown.
If the REALLY just turn the power off, then they are asking for trouble
anyway;
but assuming that they do, you could use the "deadtime=" and "keepalive="
parameters
to automatically disconnect clients that turn their pc's off after a
specific amount 
of time.  But read about these parameters in the man page, as they can also
affect 
clients that are not turned off, but have no open files, and no activity to
the server 
for a set period of time...

Hope this helps,
Don


-----Original Message-----
From: davide.dozza at yacme.com [mailto:davide.dozza at yacme.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 6:23 PM
To: MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: User authentication tracing


Hi Don,

this is really an useful tip, but how would you solve the problem
for people who switch off the PC without disconnecting from
the network?

Ciao

Davide


"MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)" wrote:
> 
> Hi Davide,
> Samba is not really set up yet for 'auditing' services, which is what I
> think you're
> kinda looking for;
> HOWEVER, take a look at the 'pre-exec' and post-exec' options for the
> smb.conf file in the
> smb.conf man page;  you can configure these to execute a program or script
> that would write
> to a file or database when the user logs in, and when he logs out, and use
> the resulting information to determine access to your other services if
you
> like...
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davide Dozza [mailto:davide.dozza at yacme.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 10:31 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: User authentication tracing
> 
> Is it possible to trace Samba authenticated user?
> 
> That is, after a user has been authenticated versus a Samba acting
> as PDC, is it possible to know if such user is still connected to the
> Microsoft
> network or they have been disconnected?
> What I would like to do is to use Samba as authentication server in
> order
> to grant the access to other services (for example Internet navigation
> through a proxy) and remove the access when such user disconnects
> from the network.
> 
> Davide
> 
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