The limiting of hours has been requested by a school, to inhibit
students from dialing in when they get home. If they didn't give out
the password this would not have been a problem, but the kids would
have eventually found out anyhow.
Since I use RADIUS, I am planning on writing a perl scipt to peruse
the detail file to determine if a user is connected multiple times,
and if so, we have decided to bill them the daily amount as if they
had multiple accounts rather than preventing the multiple logins.
--Larry
On 5 Sep 95 at 9:44, Charles Scott shaped the electrons to say:
> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 09:44:55 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Charles Scott <cscott@freeway.net>
> Subject: Re: Limiting dial-in users to one login at a time
> To: Brett Hays <bhays@hsonline.net>
> Cc: tech@arakis.sugar-river.net, portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Reply-to: Charles Scott <cscott@freeway.net>
>
> Brett:
> Yes. The easiest way to limit users is to not provide unlimited
> accounts. If you limit a standard user to some defined amount of on-line
> time, then why should you care if he shares it with his friends. This is
> particularly effective if you charge for use beyond the daily or monthly
> limit. A user who sees their time gobbled up by associates and friends is
> going to change their password in short order. Besides, there are
> reasons that a user might at times want to have more that one connection
> or login session at a time.
> The flipside of this is that if you do sell unlimited accounts, that
> you need to prevent them from multiple logins. The best way to handle
> that is to restrict them to a single phone line and therefore serial port,
> dedicated to them alone. You would of course get enough for the unlimited
> account to cover the cost of a line/modem/PortMaster port, wouldn't you?
>
> Chuck Scott, Pres.
> Freeway, Inc.
> cscott@freeway.net
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Sep 1995, Brett Hays wrote:
>
> > I have seen a number of questions asked on this subject, but no
> > answers and I am eager to know if there is indeed a way to limit
> > callers to one login at a time on the PM. Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Brett Hays
> > Hoosier On-Line Systems
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 03:44:06 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: System Administrator <tech@arakis.sugar-river.net>
> > > To: larryt@goldrush.com
> > > Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> > > Subject: Re: Limiting dial-in users to one login at a time
> > > Reply-to: System Administrator <tech@arakis.sugar-river.net>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2 Sep 1995 larryt@goldrush.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am using RADIUS on my BSDI v2.0 system. I have a PM2ER10, and I am using
> > > > dynamic (assigned) IP address for dial-in PPP lines. I would like to limit
> > > > users to only one login at a time, and optionally, I might like to limit users
> > > > to certain hours of the day. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I
> > > > looked at the acct.c and radiusd.c code, and I think that I could modify them
> > > > to achieve the results, but I was hoping that someone might already have it
> > > > working.
> > > >
> > > I would be interested in any repliy in this area, too.....
> > >
> > > Also, does anyone have a COMPILED radiusd for BSDI that I can FTP? I
> > > tried to compile the 1.16 from Livingston, but got a stack of errors,
> > > relating to mixed pointer types........ I did not see anything at
> > > Livingston that refered to this (possible) portability problem. Did I
> > > miss something? This error came from 2 specific functions in the source
> > > code, I can pinpoint the problem areas if this would be of use. But, then
> > > again, if I can simply FTP the finished product, so much the better....
> > > I wonder why there isn't a compiled one availible directly from
> > > Livingston?
> > > Oh well, thanks to anyone that can shed some light on this subject;
> > > T. Parssinen (odin@arakis.sugar-river.net)
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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