Hi, we have a set of workstations that we would like to restrict a
group of people from using at certain times, so that another group of
users can have sole access to the workstations. Are there any Solaris
2.8 accounting packages that restrict logins between certain hours -
possibly based on a config file?

Any recommendations will be much appreciated.

Regards


Jason

In article <16cf1fbe.0308140304.5e7a9844@posting.google.com >,
Jason Holder <jasonholder@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi, we have a set of workstations that we would like to restrict a
>group of people from using at certain times, so that another group of
>users can have sole access to the workstations. Are there any Solaris
>2.8 accounting packages that restrict logins between certain hours -
>possibly based on a config file?
>
>Any recommendations will be much appreciated.

You can use TCP Wrappers, and run cron jobs that swap between different
hosts.allow files at different times of day.

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Jason Holder wrote:
>
> Hi, we have a set of workstations that we would like to restrict a
> group of people from using at certain times, so that another group of
> users can have sole access to the workstations. Are there any Solaris
> 2.8 accounting packages that restrict logins between certain hours -
> possibly based on a config file?
>
> Any recommendations will be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> Jason
I don't know how effective you think it would be, but in the uni where
I work, we have had rules about these sort of things, saying "machine
X, Y and Z are used for clinical work and must not be used between the
times of A and B". Stick that in motd. That seems to have worked okay,
with a multitude of students.

That might be a bit less hassle than installing tcpwrappers that
someone else mentioned, but then using that program is probably a
pretty good idea from the security point of view.
--
Dr. David Kirkby,
Senior Research Fellow,
Department of Medical Physics,
University College London,
11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA.
Tel: 020 7679 6408 Fax: 020 7679 6269
Internal telephone: ext 46408
e-mail davek@medphys.ucl.ac.uk