Re: Single Login Session

[Matthew Melvin <matthewm webcentral com au>]

On Wed, 30 May 2001 at 7:01pm (+0800), andrewso netvigator com wrote:

> All,
>
> I would like to ask is it possbile just allow a user login a session
> only ? That means no user allows more than one session. I think may
> be some configration settings on limit. Please help !
>

Look at /etc/security/limits.conf and the pam_limits.so module.  There's an
item 'maxlogins' that does what you want.  The example config file is fairly
informative and there is some more information under the /usr/share/doc/pam*
about it.  (/usr/share may just be /usr on older RH installs).

M.

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