Automated user lockout during certain hours

[Andrew Bartlett]

You would also have to restart samba to kick out the users.  (SMB
clients will reconnect in this case, logging in with the same username
and password).

However the smbpasswd -d option is a bit of a hack, I would recommend
instead looking into the 'obey pam restrictions' paramater - and using
it with the 'pam_time.so' module to the same effect.  This would mean
that you would not accedentily re-enable accounts that you had disabled
for other reasons.

Andrew Bartlett

Steve wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a better solution. Does it also kick out a current user?
> 
> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 11:01, you wrote:
> > i think you can use the option of  smbpasswd -d to "disable" user xxx....
> > you can put a cronjob to disable the users you dont want to log during xxx
> > hours minutes ... then re-enabled the users...
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Tooley" <ctooley at amoa.org>
> > To: <samba at samba.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: Automated user lockout during certain hours
> >
> > > A cron job to kill the samba service would work (any locked files aren't
> > > going to be backed up unless you break the connection) if you want to
> > > deny access to everyone to the box at the same time.
> > >
> > > You may want something more sufisticated.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 08:39, samba-admin at lists.samba.org wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've been through a few places including the book Linux Samba Server
> > > > Administration and cannot find anything on something that allwos me to
> >
> > deny
> >
> > > > access during certain hours so that backup can be done safely.
> > > >
> > > > One method I thought of was to copy in a new smb.conf with different
> > > > settings. I figure something better should exist.
> > > >
> > > > All servers are running 2.4 kernels and latest samba.
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> > > > Steve Szmidt
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