How about passing this script along to the rest of us......
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Systems Administrator wrote:
> 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.
>
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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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