Re: restricting users during certain times/days
From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 02/02/04
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:03:47 GMT
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:27:46 -0800, "Mike Cox" <mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Is it possible to control the times or days a user is allowed to login?
>For example, if you only want a user to be able to login during the
>weekdays. How would you set that up?
Depending on how universal I wanted the restriction, I'd probably set up a
couple of cron jobs
0 0 * * mon touch /etc/nologin
0 0 * * sat rm /etc/nologin
see nologin(5) ("man 5 nologin") for details on what the /etc/nologin file does.
-- Lew Pitcher IT Consultant, Enterprise Technology Solutions Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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