Limiting Num of Concurrent Users to specific applications

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 09 February 2006 08:33, Joe Baker wrote:
> I'm engineering a terminal server environment where I work.  We plan on
> making many applications available to nearly all users on the system.
> However, with some of these applications we are limited to a certain
> number of licenses.

Do you need to track this limit yourself or does it use a license server?

> I would like to float the idea within 
> freedesktop.org that a part of the menu system might include some sort
> of mechanism which would limit the number of concurrent users of a
> certain piece of software.
>
> It is arguable that this function could be limited by a launcher script
> rather than the menu.  Yet I see an opportunity here for an extensible
> framework model.
>
> Features I could imagine are user classes where some users could be
> pre-emptable where their running copy would be stopped for someone else
> to be able to use another floating license.
>
> I hope this doesn't appear off-topic.

Well, it's called freedesktop.org and not runtimelimiteddesktop.org ;-) but I 
like to pretend that we are open minded towards sysadmin needs.

Cheers,
Waldo
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