On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:46:29PM +0800, Jay Jesus Amorin wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:17:10PM +0800, Jay Jesus Amorin wrote:
> >> hi gurus,
> >>
> >> how will i configure sshd to allow only one username at a time.
> >>
> >> example:
> >>
> >> on pc1 ---- ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> on pc2 ---- ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> now what i like to happen is ssh on pc2 should be drop bec. the user
> >> root is already connected from pc1.
> >>
> >> is it possible with to configure sshd that way like ssh will already
> >> drop ssh root from pc2 bec. username root is already connected from
> >> pc1?
> >
> >I don't think that is a smart idea, and I am not aware of any way to
> >implement this particular requirement. You could probably write a daemon
> >or cron job that takes a look at the number of ptys in use by any single
> >account, and so on.
>
> thanks for the ideas
Not to appear too nosy, but what do you *really* want to do? If you are
concerned about people leaving root sessions unattended, perhaps a
timeout would be a better way of achieving this? IIRC, there are some
programs that will lock a console when it's not used for X seconds.
Joachim
