Logon time limits

[Wil McGilvery]

There is short discussion about tracking the time of logged in users at 
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/1/2003/05/2/58613

I would think you could record the time logged in and the time logged out for each user the time using login and logout scripts.

The difference for each session would be the time spent logged in and this could kept in a file on your box. When someone logs in the login script
Checks the file and accepts/rejects the login based on the time accumulated.

A simple cron job would reset the information every week.

I sorry I cannot be more specific, but alas, I do not do a lot of scripting myself.

Maybe someone on the list proficient in this area could help you out.

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
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-----Original Message-----
From: ronnie gauthier [mailto:ronnieg at chartermi.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 6:45 PM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org

Go look at ISP accounting packages or maybe cafe software, you will probably
want to run some type of raduis server for authentication.

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:09:02 -0500 - Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote the
following
Re: Logon time limits

>Is there a way to set logon time limits for up  to a set number of hours 
>  in an arbitrary time period (like a week)?
>
>The goal is to limit logon time for the kids over a week to cut down on 
>fighting over the computers on the network.  I really don't want to 
>confine them to a set time period each day because that will not help 
>them learn to budget their own time.
>
>TIA
>
>     -- Alma
>
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