Dave Keal
SIERRA INTERNET
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Personally, by accident, I found an excellent method of doing this, assign the
> username a static IP address, each time they login they get the SAME IP, as
> soon as two ports have the same IP, the portmaster will do its proprietary MPP
> thingy, once this happens each person using the IP will get around half the
> packets they should get, get massive timeouts, and generally nothing will work
> :)
>
> There is also a method of saying only one port at a time isn't there??
>
> Regards, Adam Goryachev
>
> > On Thu, 29 May 1997, Systems Administrator wrote:
> >
> > > Portmasters do not support this option, however I have modified a script I
> > > got from this list to check the portmasters (all portmasters on your
> > > system) for multiple entries for a single user. If you wish I can mail you
> > > the script. Email me if you want it.
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > > From: Todd Knaus <todd@cisnet.com>
> > > > To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> > > > Subject: Multiple logins
> > > > Date: Thursday, May 29, 1997 12:29 PM
> > > >
> > > > Dear Fellow PM3 users,
> > > >
> > > > How do I keep users from dialing in more than once ? We have a few
> > > > business PPP customers who have 5 oo6 PC's in the office. Each PC has
> > > > Internet access for email & web purposes. The contract they signed
> > > states
> > > > that only 1 PC can login at a time and they are pretty good about it.
> > > > However we have noticed a couple of time where 3 or 4 of them are loggin
> > > > in at the same time using the same login name and password.
> > > >
> > > > How do we disable this so that after the first person logs in the rest
> > > > will be denied access until he/she logs off ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks............
> > > >
> > >
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