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Re: restricting login times



Joel Rees wrote:
> I know this is the wrong way to solve the underlying problems, but
> sometimes brute force is required.

If I were doing that by brute force then instead of using PAM I would
use cron to create and remove a /etc/nologin file.  See 'man 5 nologin'
for details of the file.  But something like this:

0 17 * * *  echo "No logins allowed now." > /etc/nologin
0 5 * * *  rm -f /etc/nologin

That would be brute force.  Create the nologin file when you want and
remove it when you want.

Bob

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