Limit logins on a group of machines?

[Lisa Kachold]

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 <ejs at shubes.net> 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'
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