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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:35:58 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        gestur@islandia.is
Subject:   Re: prevent paralell modem connection
Message-ID:  <199601032235.XAA21772@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601031727.LAA13230@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 3, 96 11:27:05 am

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As Joe Greco wrote:
> 
> > If so, is there a way to prevent people to be able to get connection on
> > the system from two or more places at one time, like if users share their
> > accounts, taking two modems and only paying for one account ?
> 
> Sure.  Stick a "cron" job in to count the number of times that a user is on
> a tty line.  Think about something like:

I think hacking on /usr/bin/login wouldn't be that complicated, either.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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