From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 2 16:02:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA22771 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 16:02:45 -0800 Received: from schizo.coe.montana.edu (schizo.coe.montana.edu [153.90.192.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA22765 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 16:02:44 -0800 Received: by schizo.coe.montana.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA17625; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:02:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 17:02:29 -0700 From: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Message-Id: <9502030002.AA17625@schizo.coe.montana.edu> To: Garrett Wollman Cc: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen), roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT), guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij), FreeBSD-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: limits (again) In-Reply-To: <9502022344.AA22142@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199502022127.WAA17861@gvr.win.tue.nl> <9502022240.AA17211@blaise.ibp.fr> <9502022253.AA17337@schizo.coe.montana.edu> <9502022344.AA22142@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Garrett" == Garrett Wollman writes: Garrett> < osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) said: >> Heck, if it's wish-time, I'd love to see limits on # of >> processes/user, limits on pty vs tty access, >> time-of-day-limits, sheesh, a whole bunch of 'em. Garrett> Only the first of these is any business of the kernel's. Garrett> As for the rest, that's what the `pw_class' hook in the Garrett> password database is for. Well, the stuff in the pwdb seems useful at logon, it looks harder to make use of it constantly. ie, it's fine if they login before 5pm, but when 5pm rolls around, I want their jobs killed, and them booted. That looks easier in the kernel as opposed to login and some daemon.