Limit user to one login

[Craig A. Sharp]

I need to find a way to limit my users to a single session (one login). I am not sure how to do this.
Any help would be appreciated. We are running 11.23.

Thanks,

Craig

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The best way is by script. /etc/profile is a good place to check this, but be sure to exclude special users like oracle.

logins=$(who am i | wc -l)

if [ logins -ge 2 ]
then
echo "You already have a login session."
exit 1
fi

SEP

[Coolmar]

Hi Craig,

Check out the following thread....

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1054187

[Pete Randall]

Craig,

These threads offer some suggested modifications to either .profile or /etc/profile to implement this:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x431472106351d5118fef0090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=-682735245+1165851558554+28353475
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=121040


Pete

[Deepak Kulkarni]

Hi Craig,


`man security` will give the detailed explanantion.

The parameter is NUMBER_OF_LOGINS_ALLOWED paramter should be set to limit.

Cheers
DK

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Steven:

Using:

# logins=$(who am i | wc -l)

...will *always* return a count of ONE!

Regards!

...JRF...