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Peter Smit
Asked: 2009-10-04 05:29:05 +0800 CST

How to setup a database driven login permission system Linux

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For a kind of Internet Café we want to do the following:

  • People buy access for their username for a specific time period. E.g. the coming hour.
  • The coming hour they can log in on an OpenSuse box
  • After the hour the system automatically logs out the user
  • The user can not log in anymore

How to set this up?

(Later we maybe want to add a warning 5 minutes before shutting of)

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I would use LDAP instead of a database in combination with a logout script timed by at(d).

    Some maybe usefull code snippets:

    Timed logout:

    at 13:37 -f logout.sh
at now + 1 hour -f logout.sh

    Command to force logout:

    kill -15 $(ps -U NameOfUserToLogout -o "pid=")
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