[K12OSN] Solution? Managing Identical logins

[Martin Woolley]

On Tuesday 01 Feb 2005 6:39 pm, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> Attention script writers:
> I just had an idea. Is it possible to run a script at beginning of login
> that would do this
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [$USER != root]
> then
>    if [who | grep $USER]  #this line needs some help
>    then
>       #abort login (not sure how to do this)
>    fi
> fi
>
> basically check to see if the user is already logged in and abort login if
> true. I am not familiar with bash script writing. It's on my to learn list.
>
> At least this way the student who is already logged on with the username
> will not get kicked off. Only the second attempt to login with the same
> username will fail.

There is a posting about this very subject here
http://www.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/2004-September/msg00567.html
-- 
Regards
Martin Woolley
ICT Support
Handsworth Grammar School
Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna



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