From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 06:07:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA17610 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 06:07:10 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA17602 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 06:07:07 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id IAA22542; Thu, 7 Sep 1995 08:57:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 08:57:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: * master.passwd busy -- some bug in passwd? * To: Seppo Kallio cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Sep 1995, Seppo Kallio wrote: > I have 1800 accounts in my FreeBSD 205R. And a lot of users. Going fine so > far! With 39 users no problems ... ah ... yes many seem to be idle. Need > set autologout and kill idles every night. try using untamo to get rid of users that fail to logout. from the readme: Untamo is a locally developed daemon which periodically wakes up and logs off idle terminals; it also can deal with multiply-logged in users. It is configurable without recompilation, and features tunable parameters such as maximum allowed idle time, maximum allowable multiple logins, exemption lists, and so on. (Note: session limits do not work at the moment.) We use this program to ensure availability of one of our scarcer resources: terminals. Others may find it useful for different reasons; preventing users from leaving a terminal logged-in and unattended for hours is probably a reasonable security measure. The original posting caused a deluge of mail, as the sources contained references to local include files. This has been fixed by #ifdef'ing the code which applies only locally. This version has been successfully compiled on a Sequent Balance 21000 running Dynix v2.0.6, a CCI 6/32 running 4.3bsd, a DEC VAX-8600 running 4.3bsd, a Gould PowerNode 9080 Running UTX-32 Release 1.3, and and a VAX-11/780 running 4.2bsd. Please address correspondence concerning untamo to "doc" on this machine; the original author has left Purdue, but Craig Norborg (aka "doc") is reasonably familiar with the program. -- Rich Kulawiec, pucc-j!rsk, rsk@j.cc.purdue.edu, rsk@purdue-asc.arpa Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346