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From: graham@ee.brunel.ac.uk (Graham J Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Login control
Message-ID: <435@brueer.ee.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 05:13:02 EST
Article-I.D.: brueer.435
Posted: Thu Dec 18 05:13:02 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 22:21:19 EST
Organization: Dept of EE & E, Brunel University, Uxbridge, U.K.
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Keywords: login control access

Dear Netfolks,

For many years we have worked on the principle that most of our users are a
reasonable bunch of people who will stay off the system during timetabled
classes - this is a system that has worked well up to now.

This year we seem to have many students who are abusing the system, so I need 
to write a program which will either selectively prevent logins or check who
is logged in and throw people off the system if they are not in the class. 

I would like my program to read a file containing a week number, day, time
period and list of acceptable groups(1).

Nothing too hard in that, you might say, except the usual problem of not enough
hours in a day. Before I start writing this program I thought I'd check if
anyone knew of a clever Unix trick to do all this, which I might have missed, 
or if anyone has already written the kind of program I've described above.

Thanxalot

Graham

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