I’m having a Centos 7 server and when I limit the maximum connections per user using the config file /etc/security/limits.conf it works just fine. See below an example of my configuration in that file:
user1 - maxlogins 1
user2 - maxlogins 1
However, if the shell associated to the user is /sbin/nologin, it does not work anymore. I created some users that are used only for port forwarding. Since I want to restrict rights for these users as much as I can, I assigned them to shell /sbin/nologin.
So, is there a work around about this issue? What I want is to limit maximum connections for these users too.
Thank you in advance.
G. Plante
