Re: (PM) Radius (fwd)

Systems Administrator (jjohnston@u-r-online.com)
Thu, 6 Nov 1997 20:07:19 -0500

Why not write a simple script that uses pmwho and pmcomm, freeware, to
check if there is multiple users on, place it in your crontab to run every
5 or 10 minutes and you have a free method of preventing multiple logins.
Such a script can be made to have exempt customers, multiple portmasters
and more. The script is out there, I have one running on my system.

Jeff Johnston email: jjohnston@u-r-online.com
Systems Administrator suport email: support@u-r-online.com
U-R-Online Inc. phone: (519) 681-3673
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| From: Jacob Suter <jsuter@intrastar.net>
| To: Tim Flavin <tim@i1.net>
| Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
| Subject: Re: (PM) Radius (fwd)
| Date: Thursday, November 06, 1997 7:32 PM
|
| I don't want to dedicate a machine for controlling my one portmaster...
| Thats what Cyclades serial cards are for - and a whole lot cheaper per
| port than a Portmaster, I use the portmaster because it works. I also
| bought my Portmaster with the understanding that radius (or something
| else from livingston) would be controlling multi logins soon.. that was
| 21 months ago, and a lot of radiuses ago, and it still remains.
|
| Pmmon is a commercial application - they want money. Money that
| shouldn't be nessasary because it SHOULD be build into the terminal
| server & its normal support software (ie - radius).
|
| Why not a 'is this luser already logged in' system? Lets say you have
| pm1-pm8... luser logs into pm8, it checks the 'users' file, sees that
| he has a max-ports of 1... at that point calling all the portmasters and
| going "is this luser already logged in?"... A finger-like software with
| real security would work.
|
| *sigh* it seems like such an easy thing to fix, and its not.
|
| JS
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