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On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Ian Wynne wrote:

> I don't know how to get the user information for billing purposes,
> ie login and logout times and duration spent on the system.

Look into accounting and quotas.

> Also, is it possible to implement some sort of inactivety time out, which
> logs people out if they haven't performed any action for a given number
> of minutes?

Look into daemons like logoutd.

== Chris Layne  =============================================================
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