On Fri, 28 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I want my Linux system to authenticate a single user and warning 
> and disconnecting the second connection if any other with the 
> same username wants to connect to the server. I did the following 
> in /etc/security file in Linux Red Hat 5.2 system.
> 
> *     -       maxlogins               1
> 
> But it did not work. Is there more to do with this or any other way 
> to control the access?
> 
 This Pam does.
Step 1 :  
put in : /etc/pam.d/login next line :
session    required     /lib/security/pam_limits.so
Step 2 :
in /etc/security/limits.conf insert line :
*       -       maxlogins       1

 This should resolve your problem.

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