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Date:      Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:35:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: does login.conf limitations work ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904241133200.25284-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904231110.NAA00657@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i was wondering if the limitations that are supposed to be enforced via
> the login.conf mechanism do really work...
> 
> In particular, i have tried (on 3.1 something, but don't think that
> current is much different in this respect) to enforce the daily etc.
> login times but the system seems to ignore them.
> 
> I think /etc/login.conf is properly parsed, because if i assign a user
> to a class that is not defined in login.conf i get complaints, but
> other than that i am unable to limit login time...
> 
> Any hints ?

That's also my impression. I glipmsed the whole source tree and I couldn't
find any place where the limits are enforced. BTW. what entity should
enforce login time limits? Kernel? Some user-space daemon?

Andrzej Bialecki

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