Login controls

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> 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?

According to Google, its part of the shadow package, which Fedora
renames shadow-utils.  Doesn't seem to be getting packaged with
shadow-utils though.

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