Hello

I've been wondering if it's at all possible within AD or perhaps via script to limit the amount of times a specific user (or group) is allowed to login. For example, I have a guest user that I would like to login only 3 times and after that, the login will fail

I know that you can give account limits based on date, times and also locations, but I have been souring the net for ways to limit solely on the amount of logins. I have also stumbled on a MSDN knowledge base article which states that this is not possible on NT 4 and below however, since Windows 2000 and above were not mentioned, I figured that is was in fact possible, just hard to find. Thanks kindly in advance for any help

-- dave

Dave Torres wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been wondering if it's at all possible within AD or perhaps via
> script to limit the amount of times a specific user (or group) is
> allowed to login. For example, I have a guest user that I would like
> to login only 3 times and after that, the login will fail.
>
> I know that you can give account limits based on date, times and also
> locations, but I have been souring the net for ways to limit solely
> on the amount of logins. I have also stumbled on a MSDN knowledge
> base article which states that this is not possible on NT 4 and below
> however, since Windows 2000 and above were not mentioned, I figured
> that is was in fact possible, just hard to find. Thanks kindly in
> advance for any help.

You could limit the amount of connections to the user's home directory to 3
connections, and run a login script that tested for this connection and
logged the user off if it wasn't working right (obviously this would be the
case when the 4th user logged in).