Subject: Re: (Wscons) Double login - split personality?
To: T@W <lsp93@xs4all.nl>
From: WF Nix <tronik@lownet.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/05/2001 17:01:55
> Hi reading people,
>
> Something puzzles me about wscons (and possibly the whole multi-user login
> procedure).
>
> Here's the situation: when logged in on one screen (for example as
> "mr.bean") and mr.bean (or a person impersonating mr.bean) can login
> on the same machine. Huh?!
What...?
> Now call me whole but appears to be pretty schizophrenic.
>
> I guess this situation not only applies to wscons but to.......well.....
> .... all and everything in multi-user state that you can login to ?
>
> My Q.:
> How to lock out a login to the same account from a second mr.bean when the
> first mr.bean has already logged in ??
>
this is done in freeBSD by using the field
:sessionlimit=2:\
in /etc/login.conf (then rebuilding with cap_mkdb) as for us, im not sure
if we support that field or if our user classes are even functional via
login/login.conf
> Cheerz,
> T@W
-William
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