[SLUG] "idled" daemon

[Rachel Polanskis <r.polanskis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi sluggers,

We have been using a daemin called "idled" for some time 
to logout users who we don't want left logged in forever or 
to exempt userssuch as myself from being logged out. 

It works nicely and I have in the past hacked the source so it 
sends different kinds of SIGS becasue we have a system called "universe" 
that doesn't like users being logged out ungracefully.  
This also works OK.  

Now we are moving to all numeric logins (not my idea, comments?) 
for staff & students and idled will not run anymore as it thinks 
the numeric logins are bad syntax.  I have scanned the net for updates 
first off but idled was orphaned some years ago but surprisingly 
is still part of many current Linux packages.   It is marked on the 
homepage for it as "no longer supported".

I then decided to return to the source but I can't locate 
where it bombs, except in a yacc file "parse.y".  Now, yacc is as 
foreign to me as Sanscrit and I think I would go insane trying to 
learn it. 

I checked my Sun headers and there doesn't appear to be anything stopping 
me usin numeric logins in pwnam or it's friends.  "pwck" doesn't 
seem to like all numeric logins either but very little else has 
broken (even sudo now has numeric login support).  

I was wondering if anyone knows something about this program, 
yacc or even better if there is a modern replacement? 

Can any of you guys help? 

Thanks - also any comments on how wonderful numeric logins can 
be is also much appreciated - I hate the concept but the PHB's 
seem to go starry eyed at the idea :/


rachel (a name not a number)

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