linuxbuddies.com » login http://linuxbuddies.com For linux documentations. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:11:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Limit number of Shell logins by a USER or GROUP http://linuxbuddies.com/2008/12/22/limit-number-of-shell-logins-by-a-user-or-group/ http://linuxbuddies.com/2008/12/22/limit-number-of-shell-logins-by-a-user-or-group/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:31:08 +0000 Riyesh http://linuxbuddies.com/?p=63 useradministrationltiple Shell login by the same user on a Linux box you have to set a maximum number of logins in /etc/security/limits.conf for a user or a group.

For example:

# groupadd salesgroup
# useradd -G salesgroup salesman1
# useradd -G salesgroup salesmanager
# echo “@salesgroup – maxlogins 10? >> /etc/security/limits.conf
# echo “salesman1 – maxlogins 5? >> /etc/security/limits.conf

Here the group salesgroup can make a maximum of 10 logins at a time.
And the user salesman1 is limited to 5 simultaneous logins.

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