Re: "multiple" logins NIS

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] B64FFFBF.6E50%fke@sk-kessler.de>,
Florian Kessler  <fke@sk-kessler.de> wrote:
>we are a few volunteers here administrating a network at a school. As we
>aren´t financly (is this a correct english word?) supported, we have to
>charge our "customers" (pupils!) to keep our net alive! But a few customers
>share their account now and we don´t have the personal resources (and
>especially are not willing to) to control each access. Therefore we search
>for a solution to disable the multiple logins, because it would only be
>possible to give the account away, if the pupil don´t want to use it the
>same time.
>Did you understand? (Although my english is "$/§$&!)

Okay, I understand.

But the thing you are looking for doesn't exist, as far as I know.
That's why I said 'an elaborate of scripts with lockfiles on
a shared NFS partition' - you're going to have to invent such
a system yourself.

What you really want, ofcourse, is to charge by the hour. Then it
doesn't matter if the accounts are shared. That shouldn't be too
hard - just rotate the wtmp files on all machines nightly, copy
the ones from the previous day to a central server, run "last"
on them and have some script calculate the total #of hours per user

Mike.
Mike.