Limit number of connections per user?

Goran Hasse gorhas at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 06:24:26 EST 2010


Why do you want to do this! This is totaly against all
praxis in a Unix environment! Users will bee VERY anyoyed. If they log in from
home and then go to some other place and try to login and the server
says "rejected"
they will just get mad. (In my opinion). And mostly because they don't
understand
the logic in this. A unix is a multiuser, mutli session environment.
Scrap this idea!

GH

2010/4/15 Scott Neugroschl <scott_n at xypro.com>:
> I'm working from modified 5.0p1 codebase.
>
> What I'm looking for is a mechanism to limit the number of simultaneous
> connections on a per-user/IP basis.
> That is, disallow multiple simultaneous logins/authentication of the
> same user from different IP addresses.
>
> e.g.:
>
> fred from 10.1.1.1 - accept
> fred from 10.1.1.2 -- reject while fred is still connected from 10.1.1.1
> fred from 10.1.1.1 - OK (same IP)
> --- all freds log out
> fred from 10.1.1.2 -- OK (fred not logged in)
>
> Is this doable, or not?  I realize that the sshd architecture may make
> this difficult or impossible.
>
> ----
> Scott Neugroschl
>
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