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From: ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Scott Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 14 Dec 90 03:00:21 GMT
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> Barry Shein writes:

> I don't know of any OS, for example, which gives much control over
> when someone can log in.

> Say you have operators with (some) privileges and would rather not
> have them logging in off-shift. Do you know any OS which lets you put
> that kind of logic in? (Oh, under most I can write scripts which
> disable accounts at various times, but I get to monkey around with
> some things which are fraught with peril.)

> (I assume someone will say "so ask them not to log in off-shift", a
> logic I agree with, but just an example.)

Try VAX/VMS for one.  VMS allows you to have complete control over
when a user is allowed to login.  It allows you to divide the week
into primary and secondary days and allows you to set by the hour
when a user can login. It also allows you to set when a user
can dialin, do network logins, run batch jobs, etc ... all independently.
Thus you can have a user be able to dial in only from 8-10 p.m. M-F, but
all day on Sunday.  Let them have network access only on weekends, and
allow logins from a terminal server all day long, but batch files can
be run only on saturday night.  All this is independently controllable
for each user.  How's that for control?  Of course VMS has other problems
which we won't go into at the moment but control over login times, I don't
think is one of them.


                            -- Scott (ST402248@Brownvm)

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