How to restrict account to one log-in?


 
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Old 09-02-2004
How to restrict account to one log-in?

Our users have the tendency to use only one login account, to do their jobs. Obvious itīs a matter of training our users. But our internal audit team insists on restrictions from our system.

So is there an option to restrict an account to only login once into the system?

We use HP-UX 11.0.

Thanks in advance for your answers.
 
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PAM_LOCALUSER(8)						 Linux-PAM Manual						  PAM_LOCALUSER(8)

NAME
pam_localuser - require users to be listed in /etc/passwd SYNOPSIS
pam_localuser.so [debug] [file=/path/passwd] DESCRIPTION
pam_localuser is a PAM module to help implementing site-wide login policies, where they typically include a subset of the network's users and a few accounts that are local to a particular workstation. Using pam_localuser and pam_wheel or pam_listfile is an effective way to restrict access to either local users and/or a subset of the network's users. This could also be implemented using pam_listfile.so and a very short awk script invoked by cron, but it's common enough to have been separated out. OPTIONS
debug Print debug information. file=/path/passwd Use a file other than /etc/passwd. MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
All module types (account, auth, password and session) are provided. RETURN VALUES
PAM_SUCCESS The new localuser was set successfully. PAM_SERVICE_ERR No username was given. PAM_USER_UNKNOWN User not known. EXAMPLES
Add the following line to /etc/pam.d/su to allow only local users in group wheel to use su. account sufficient pam_localuser.so account required pam_wheel.so FILES
/etc/passwd Local user account information. SEE ALSO
pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7) AUTHOR
pam_localuser was written by Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>. Linux-PAM Manual 06/04/2011 PAM_LOCALUSER(8)