Limit logins on a group of machines?

[Joshua Zeidner]

  you also may be able to configure Kerberos to this.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)

 -jmz

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Stephen<cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> this is kind of where an LDAP server comes in to play, then you cna
> restrict number of concurrent logins across the network.
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Bill Jonas<bill at billjonas.com> 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!
>>
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