In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florian Kessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >we are a few volunteers here administrating a network at a school. As we >aren´t financly (is this a correct english word?) supported, we have to >charge our "customers" (pupils!) to keep our net alive! But a few customers >share their account now and we don´t have the personal resources (and >especially are not willing to) to control each access. Therefore we search >for a solution to disable the multiple logins, because it would only be >possible to give the account away, if the pupil don´t want to use it the >same time. >Did you understand? (Although my english is "$/§$&!)
Okay, I understand. But the thing you are looking for doesn't exist, as far as I know. That's why I said 'an elaborate of scripts with lockfiles on a shared NFS partition' - you're going to have to invent such a system yourself. What you really want, ofcourse, is to charge by the hour. Then it doesn't matter if the accounts are shared. That shouldn't be too hard - just rotate the wtmp files on all machines nightly, copy the ones from the previous day to a central server, run "last" on them and have some script calculate the total #of hours per user Mike. Mike.
