(RADIATOR) Time & Session-Timeout

[Mariano Absatz]

Hi,

I would like to do the following.

Suppose I have a dial-up product that allows a user to connect only in a 
certain block time AND also has a maximum hours per month.

For instance, he can connect Mon-Fri 8-20 and Sat 8-13 but no more than 
20 hours per month.

I would have a TIMEBLOCK column in that user database with the following 
content:

"MoTuWeThFr0800-2000, Sa0800-2000"

(btw, does the weekday support ranges also, like in "Mo-Fr0800-2000, 
Sa0800-2000"?)

The TIMELEFT column would have the seconds remaining for this user.

What I want is to set Session-Timeout to the minimum of "until Time" and 
TIMELEFT.

But... :-) ... I also want to be able to have a value (in the db column) 
to ignore either or both:

Example database:

username,password,timeleft,timeblock
john,secret,7200,"MoTuWeThFr0800-2000, Sa0800-2000"
paul,xxxx,-1,"Wk0800-2000, Sa0800-2000"
mary,abcd,-1,"Al0000-2400"
jane,wxyz,126000,"Al0000-2400"

being, -1, for instance, an indicator that the user has unlimited monthly 
connection time (but maybe subject to timeblock restrictions).

In this example database john has 2 hours left and can only log on 
weekdays from 8 through 20 and saturdays from 8 through 13.

paul can log in during the same periods but has no total time 
restrictions.

mary has no restrictions at all

jane can log in at any time, but she has only 35 hours left.

Questions: 

1) can I do this weird thing somehow simply? (I already read 
goodies/blocktime.txt, but this is way more complicated, is it?) (note: I 
could, if necessary, use a "very large value" to indicate 
timeleft=infinity, but I'd rather have a more visual and checkable value, 
like -1).

2) is the timeblock "Al0000-2400" acceptable?

3) are overlapping timeblocks acceptable? (e.g. "Wk0800-1700, 
MoWeFrSa1500-2000")

TIA.


Mariano Absatz
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