We don't offer shell access. All we have are ppp accounts, an have some
abusers that log in more than once.
> 4. This problem doesn't really apply to network access as it
> does to shell access.
I beg to differ, it does apply to network access.
> 5. One customer with four PortMasters is not overwhelming demand.
> Sure, there are a few other people asking for this, but the
> vast majority of Livingston's customers don't consider this
> important.
Ask around, a lot of PM-Users would like to see this included in RADIUS.
> 6. The multiple login problem is not a problem which can be solved
> on the PortMaster itself.
> 7. RADIUS is a NON-REVENUE product for Livingston. That's right,
> it's FREEWARE!
> 8. NO terminal server solves this problem (NO other terminal
> server comes as close to solving this problem as Livingston).
> 9. If you're running UNIX, the place to solve this is by
> creating a replacement for the distributed quota(1M)
> program called by login. This can easily be done on SVr4
> as follows:
>
> 1. Write a simple program (even a shell script will
> work) which:
>
> Checks for user already logged in
> If (user already logged in)
> {
> Inflict pain here
> }
> exec(/usr/sbin/quota.real)
>
>
> 2. mv /usr/sbin/quota /usr/sbin/quota.real
> 3. mv <program from step 1> /usr/sbin/quota
>
> Remember, quota is an SUID program. The program you write
> should not need SUID priveleges.
>
> This means that:
> 1. You haven't modified anyones code.
> 2. You still have full support available
> 3. You can go back to the way things were by:
> mv /usr/sbin/quota.real /usr/sbin/quota
We don't have shell accounts, so this doesn't apply to us, but may help other
folks....
> 10. There are many other features which Livingston Engineering
> is focused on which are much more important to a much
> larger percentage of their customers.
>
> Overwhelming demand is, IMHO, defined as "A very large percentage of
> Livingston's customers want this so badly that it stands to significantly
> impact Livingston's sales if we do not deliver it. In fact, so
> substantially that it is in Livingston's best interest to discontinue
> efforts on other projects in order to staff a solution to this particular
> issue."
I does affect at least our usability of the PM's since abusers are able
to share accounts. Static IP's are a solution, but we a finite number
of IP's to allocate.
> Your problem does not fall into this definition of overwhelming demand.
> OSPF does. PRI does.
>
> I have features I'd like to see in the portmaster as well (secondary
> IP addresses on interfaces, for example) that aren't there too. However,
This would be nice too.
> I suspect the demand is less than overwhelming, so I don't scream too
> loud about it.
>
> Owen
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