hi,

Is there such program in linux that does the following:

User A logs on...
Time User A: 2hours
1.5 hours later;
User A logs off...
User B logs on...
Time User B: 1 hour
1 hour later;
User B automaticly gets logged off.
10 min later;
User A logs on...
0.5 hours later;
User A automaticly gets logged off.

?
Short: Is it possible to give a user just a limited time to stayed loged on? Can the 'timer' be saved when the user logs off within the time limit?

thanks

That can be done - the question is how much time do you want to
spend on it.


Cheers,
Tink

(Jeeze some of the answers tonight are ambiguous at the least!!!)

The best way is to have something execute as the user logs in...

Have a countdown daemon running and at 0 get it to send the command "exit" - you might have to sudo the command as root.

Havent tried it, but something like:




#!bin/sh
counter = 0

while ((counter < 72000))
do
(( counter++ ))
sleep 1
done

echo <root password> | sudo -S exit



Invoke it as the user logs on like this:

countdown_to_logoff.sh &

The & at the end will cause the script to run in the background!