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From: tagreen@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Todd A. Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Telnet INTO a Mac ?
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.215642.9625@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 91 21:56:42 GMT
References: <18365@milton.u.washington.edu> <1991Mar14.060604.19964@PacBell.COM> <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1991Mar15.141509.1224@watserv1.waterloo.edu> psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R. Crispin - Psychology) writes:
>A caution if you use NCSA Telnet to allow FTP to the MAC. YOU CANNOT RESTRICT
>ACCESS IN ANY WAY. People could FTP to your MAC and GET or DELETE or PUT
>anything, anywhere. I wanted to do this since my machine has our usergroups
>disk attached and I wanted to let people have access to the files on it.
>I couldn't stop people from having access to everything else as well. This
>I felt was too dangereous. People could copy software they have no write to
>or could look at confidential files or could dump all kinds of virii onto
>my system.
>
>If anyone has a solution other than turning off all the other disks or using
>someother protection scheme I would be interested in hearing from you.
>
>Richard Crispin              Phone:    (519)888-4781
>Dept. of Psychology          EMail:    psych@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca 
>University of Waterloo                 psych@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca 
>Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1

About the only thing that you can do that I know of (and what we are
doing with our Macs and Indiana U. ) is to use FTPPass.  It will allow
you to restrict use of your machine to only people whom you have
authorized. You create a file with usernames and can also choose to give these
people passwords.  BUT this is an all or none deal.  Once a person has
a username and a password they have access to all mounted volumes.

Todd
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