Re: Limiting Time Online

CygNet Support (support@cyg.net)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 19:34:36 -0400

This sets the session limit not the daily limit. To set the daily limit you
need a script that parses the detail file, calculates the time online and
then doees a mod to the users file to suspend the ID.
Session limits does only part of the job.

Still IMHO a nice piece of code.

Eugene

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> From: Bob Fitton <bob@NCAnet.com>
> To: Jeremy Malli <jeremy@vcn.com>
> Cc: PM-Users <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
> Subject: RE: Limiting Time Online
> Date: Friday, October 11, 1996 6:25 PM
>
> --- On Fri, 11 Oct 1996 Jeremy Malli <jeremy@vcn.com> wrote:
> >I was wondering if any of the various flavors of Radius support
> >limiting a users time online? I would like to limit usage to a total
> >of 10 hours per day per user. Any suggestions?
>
> Jeremy,
> I found this in the ComOS 3.3.1 release notes:
>
> Per user session time limits
>
> Implemented session limits from the User Table or RADIUS. If RADIUS
> returns a session time limit using the new Session-Timeout attribute,
> the user will be automatically disconnected when the time limit is
> exceeded. To set a session limit in the User Table use the "set user
> Username session-limit Minutes" command.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Bob Fitton, Technical Support, NCA Inc.
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