[SOLVED] How to restrict access for users on slackware 14.2?
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Make a compelling, rewardingı case for not staying on the computer all the time, that works the best and is the most reliable, because when they overstay then that will be in the back of their minds.
Otherwise you're just going to motivate them to work around this.
ıas in, not you rewarding them for obeying (although that works, too) but a good reason why not being on the computer at those hours is more beneficial to them than doing it.
yeah but that takes out all of the fun of going to the switch box and hitting the breaker and the kid upstairs in his/her room going what just happened when all of the power goes out in there room. ....
Make a compelling, rewardingı case for not staying on the computer all the time, that works the best and is the most reliable, because when they overstay then that will be in the back of their minds.
Otherwise you're just going to motivate them to work around this.
ıas in, not you rewarding them for obeying (although that works, too) but a good reason why not being on the computer at those hours is more beneficial to them than doing it.
+1 for pointing out that the problem has a social aspect and trying to solve it with purely technical means is futile.
I still like the idea of unplugging tactic... notwithstanding that good parenting plays a big part in this, which requires not only a good understanding of the self and the human condition. But the ability to apply it to others as well.
Jan K. saying that is pure evil.
Shows me a lot about your personality. Literal over hypothetical, and jest, along with what you conciser as pure evil, no shades od gray for extenuating circumstances?
the lesser of the two evils.
How was your childhood?
taking the wires that help bring power to the computer and ripping them out of the computer then touching the live wires to the subject in question use as a means of positive reinforcement to curtail their usage of the computer.
grep "time" /etc/pam.d/*
/etc/pam.d/system-auth:# Enable restrictions by time, specified in /etc/security/time.conf
/etc/pam.d/system-auth:account required pam_time.so
now crawling through the doc, need more time to understand this pam_time.so thing
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