Login controls

Tim Wunder tim at thewunders.org
Sun Apr 13 15:32:36 PDT 2008


On Sunday 13 April 2008 03:18:00 pm Ian Wilson wrote:
> 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.

# yum search logoutd
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
<snip>
Reading repository metadata in from local files
No Matches found

So... where does one get logoutd?

Tim
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