From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 15:10:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA28596 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA28563 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA25707; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 00:09:56 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA15864; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 00:09:55 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id XAA21772; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:35:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601032235.XAA21772@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: prevent paralell modem connection To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:35:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: gestur@islandia.is Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601031727.LAA13230@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 3, 96 11:27:05 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)