On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 13:44, Francisco Castanheiro wrote:
> Is possible, but it's not what i want. Imagine that i go to the cafe, i pay 
> for two hours, but i only use one. Tomorrow a go to the cafe again and i 
> would like to use the hour that i didn't use today.
> I guess i will have to write a program for myself :-(

Francisco before you do... go to freshmeat.net and put 
Cafe in the search engine.  I did and got a bunch of hits that look like
they might fit what you need (Butterfly was one....)

James

> 
> 
> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 21:21, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> > This is just a guess, but couldn't you make a simple bash script that
> > "slept" for an hour and then logged the person out? It would probably be
> > nice for it to warn the user first though :)
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Francisco Castanheiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:10 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] Mandrake in kiosk mode
> >
> >
> > I'm trying to setup a small web cafe, i have no problems with the setup of
> > the
> > desktop, but i have one last big problem: User managment.
> > I would like to know if there is a way of have user logins time limited.
> > Can i
> > have a server with NIS (or something else) where my web cafe clients have a
> > standart unix account, and the clients (the computers) that login at the
> > server through NIS, but only if the user account is active. The client go
> > to
> >
> > the cafe, pay one hour of use, go to a computer, login, and after that hour
> > of use the computer logout. Is this possible using standard linux tools? Do
> > i
> > need another kind of software? Does someone know something that does what i
> > need?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Francisco Castanheiro
> 
> 
> 
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