Re: determining ssh and scp bandwidth use (from server)

[Richard <hebertrich yahoo com>]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 00:29:36 -0500
Micah Yoder <yodermk home com> wrote:

I dont want to get your hopes too high  but  accounting systems
on a per user basis exist.Seen some often at freshmeat.

hint hint .. BW ACCT   
there is some more  but  that  looks  a bit  like  what  you're
looking  for !

http://freshmeat.net

> > > Is there a way to find out and calculate how many bytes are
> > > transferred, in
> > > and out, by sshd on a per-user basis?  I'd like to be able to
> > > charge for that
> > > bandwidth if a lot is being used.
> >
> > I had to do something like this with all protocols and services...
> > It's called netaccounting... :o) It will be open-source in future...
> >
> > It's not on per-user basis, but on IP-Basis. But for SSH and FTP
> > it will be a good idea to implement something like this as well.
> 
> Well, that could be good, but I need it on a per-user basis.  Seems like that 
> should be possible.  sshd doesn't log it anywhere?
> 
> Maybe I could add the code myself... I wonder if the OpenSSH people would 
> give me pointers and then take my patch?  Shouldn't be *that* hard -- just 
> has to count bytes and write the total in some log file along with username.
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