Control access of programs

[Larry W. Virden]

I have been asked to determine specifications and software to provide some
sort of centralized control of access to software.  By control, the primary
criteria at this juncture is to prevent more than X number of users from
using the software at any one time.  Now, I would guess that in the 
increasingly prevalent environment of NFS, RFS, etc. that this is becoming
more and more of a concern.  I have found in discussions with several
vendors that many of them have not decided how they were going to handle
file server based software which is to be used by a large population
spread across many machines.  But it is beginning to be resolved on an
individual software case by case basis.

Does anyone out there know of any existing software, either public or
commercial, which provides these facilities?  Or for that matter, articles
to read, books to examine, etc?  I am probably going to end up writing
some minimalistic package if I dont find something in a relatively short
time frame (next week or so).  And it will probably meet my short range
needs without a lot of error recovery, etc.  But I would rather find someone
doing work on this and at least discuss some of my concerns and see how
folks are resolving some of these issues.

Thanks!


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