On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Stephane Legrand wrote: > Andrzej Bialecki writes: > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > i was wondering if the limitations that are supposed to be enforced via > > > the login.conf mechanism do really work... > > > > > > In particular, i have tried (on 3.1 something, but don't think that > > > current is much different in this respect) to enforce the daily etc. > > > login times but the system seems to ignore them. > > > > > > I think /etc/login.conf is properly parsed, because if i assign a user > > > to a class that is not defined in login.conf i get complaints, but > > > other than that i am unable to limit login time... > > > > > > Any hints ? > > > > That's also my impression. I glipmsed the whole source tree and I couldn't > > find any place where the limits are enforced. BTW. what entity should > > enforce login time limits? Kernel? Some user-space daemon? > > > > To report a login.conf success, i've used on a 2.2.8 system the > "cputime" ressource limit. I set it to zero and that worked very > well. So may be only some limits are implemented ? >
If you'd like to see where the ones which are implemented are implemented, look at the process context-switch routines in the kernel. Not having checked, but guessing, I bet login reads login.conf as a db and uses the values to set rlimits, which is where they would be set. > Stephane Legrand. > > -- > stephane.legr...@wanadoo.fr : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.legrand/ > FreeBSD Francophone : http://www.freebsd-fr.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ gr...@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
