These are my thoughts on your problem. Somebody who is a system administrator in a large organization might be able to give you a better answer.
You could use crontab to set the timing. Crontab is a facility to run certain commands at set times daily, weekly, monthly, or even on specific dates like December 25. See:
man crontab
man cron
Then at the specified times you can throw off the users whose time has expired with the killall command (I think. I have never had to throw a user off my computer so I am guessing that killall is the command to use.) At the same time you change the password for the expired user to something unknown by that user. When a user's new time slot comes around you use cron again to change the user's password back to the one he/she knows. See:
man passwd
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user account timed access
I've just acquired a magnia sg20 which uses RH 7.3. i am setting up user accounts but would like to know how i can time restrict the account log-ons i.e child number 1 can access between 4 and 5 everyday child 2 can access between 4.30 and 7... you get the idea. alternative idea would be to restrict users to say 1 hour's access a day but it's timed from when they log on til they log off so if they logon on at 2 and off at 2.20 they have used 20 mins of allocated time that day and can still log on as many times as they want in the day til they exhaust their 1 hour time.
