sLDAP will do this nicely. What is your distro? You can even authenticate to active-directory and make the Windows staff field all user maintenance requests? On 6/17/09, Eric Shubert wrote: > Bill Jonas wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was wondering if anybody might point me in the right direction here. >> I know that for limiting concurrent logins on a *single* machine, >> you can set "maxlogins" in /etc/security/limits.conf. >> >> However, this is only good for that single system. Suppose you have >> three machines (foo, bar, and baz), and you wish to restrict the number >> of total logins across all three servers. For example, you wish to >> specify that a user may only log in once, total, on this set of systems. >> >> I've searched Google with very little luck. Most of the results are >> either about limits.conf, limiting concurrent logins on a Windows >> domain (yes, even with search terms of 'linux limit concurrent network >> logins' and the like), or are otherwise irrelevant. >> >> Can anyone provide any clues, point me in the right direction, or at >> least let me know I'll have to hack something together with finger, >> rwho, and/or a custom PAM module? :) >> >> Thanks! >> > > Why (might i ask) would you want to do such a thing? Perhaps there's a > simpler solution to whatever the problem is you're trying to solve. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss