Re: NO multiple logins !! Livingston won't listen

Dave Andersen (angio@aros.net)
Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:02:48 -0600 (MDT)

I suspect Livingston does listen to the demand for this. However, it's
not as easy a problem to solve as it may appear on the surface - there
are some big issues with handling it across multiple portmasters, namely
the odd cases where a portmaster reboots, crashes, or something weird
happens. Just denying users capriciously isn't a good solution.

If you wish to stick with the Livingston RADIUS, there is still an
option: Use pmcom and pmwho (available from
ftp://ftp.aros.net/pub/util/pm) to write a quick perl script that checks
to see who's online on all of your portmasters, and if they're online
more than once, send them email, reset the line, kill their mother,
whatever you want.

We use something like this here. It's not perfect -- it probably doesn't
scale too well because of the time delays imparted by scanning multiple
portmasters, but we use it on 6 of them without any problems at all.

-Dave

Lo and behold, Ing. Felipe Tribaldos once said:
> Hi;
>
> We need a way to prevent multiple logins. I have not wanted to stray from the
> Livingston Distribution of RADIUS, but my patience has a limit.
>
> Why won't Livingston listen to the overwhelming demand for this feature? :-(
> I have wanted to stay with LE's stock distribution for the support issue,
> however my patience has a limit. We have been using PM's (we have 4 now), for over
> six months, now and have wanted this feature since day one.
>
> I know I know that you can hack the source to do this, but its only been
> requested 7 million times on this list alone.
>
> FT
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