Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!mcsun!ukc!acorn!ixi!paul From: paul@ixi.co.uk (Paul Davey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: File server security Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 90 19:31:12 GMT References: <9926@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Reply-To: paul@ixi.co.uk (Paul Davey) Organization: IXI Limited, Cambridge, UK Lines: 23 In article <9926@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes: > >Is there a way to limit rlogin, telnet, ftp access to just >a few users (the net administrators). ... Set up a netgroup named say "admin" under yp with your administrators listed as a set of users, leave the domain and machine fields empty (wild). In your server passwd files use +@admin instead of + to include just the members of the admin group. The only problem I have found with this is that the yp master passwd file is usually on a server... -- Regards, paul@ixi.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey ...!uunet!ixi!paul 62-74 Burleigh Street +44 224 462 132 (fax) Cambridge U.K.