D3 Release Version 7.4.2.RS

AIX 3.5



In my environment, is there any way to limit a user to a single log
on?



Thanks,



danny

Typically I'd say this is a function of the application ....

A technique you could use, assuming every user has a unique logon in
AIX (?) could be to have their profile attach to a specific D3 line,
eg:

.....
d3 -123
exit

This would mean that in this case the user would ALWAYS be connected
to PIB 123, and if they tried to login a second time they would logoff
with a port already connected style message

Set this line as atb12 of selected Users items, all other macro lines
should go in attributes after this:
RUN SOMEACCOUNT,BP, FORCE1

Compile this program in SOMEACCOUNT,BP:

EXECUTE "WHO ":@USER CAPTURING OUT
IF OUT<2> # "" THEN EXECUTE "EXIT"

HTH

I had created a better functionality that used a control file to allow
different users to have a different number of logons. This was handy
so that a parts counter could have multiple logons, but not an
excessive number of logons.

All that needs to be done is to enhance the method that Tony has put
forth.

Dale


On Feb 8, 10:03*pm, Tony Gravagno <tony_grava... (AT) nospam (DOT) invalid>
wrote:

I'm partial to nuking the oldest logon session of same userid, not newest...
That way an old hung session doesn't prevent you from logging on again,
if D3 for whatever reason doesn't get the dcd signal. Although to do
this you need to parse output of LU @USER instead of just WHO @USER
or maybe go look in pibs file directly.

Also, if @account is "dm" or "sysprog" or any other known non-application
account, you maybe shouldn't nuke the session even if @user is a dupe, since
they're likely doing system maintenance, not office work.