[Gllug] Multiple logins with NIS/YP

[Dylan Brewis]

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 23:32, you wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 Feb 2002, Dylan Brewis wrote:
> >After much faffing, and accelerated hair loss, I've finally got NIS
> >functioning BUT...
> >It allows the same user to log on to more than one client at the same
> > time. Not a desirable situation!
>
> Bear in mind that YP really only passes information from the YP master
> to the slaves, not vice versa or between the slaves - hence, one slave
> has no way of knowing what's happened on another.
>
> If you mount home directories via NFS you could do something evil with
> user's login scripts and a lockfile in their home directory, but I
> would not advise that.

er... why not, and how would I do it anyway?


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