Login controls

[Ian Wilson]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:02 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Anyone know of a good login control program for linux?  Appears there
>  are some rudimentary controls under PAM, but I was hoping for more
>  fine-grained control for my children.  Already running dansguardian,
>  but that doesn't keep them from playing 8-10 hours a day on the
>  Internet.

Are you just looking to control their access times, or are you looking
to control their internet?

If you're looking to control their Internet time, I believe that
dansguardian does have time controls that you can use to specify
time-based access controls.

If you're looking to control the amount of time they spend logged in,
look at implementing logoutd -- it uses /etc/porttime to control the
amount of time that they can spend logged into a specific computer,
and then logs them out when their time is up.

Hope this helps;

Ian

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