Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!verber From: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark Verber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Network Logins Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 14:19:23 GMT References: <1991May28.135719.13805@cs.utk.edu> Sender: news@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State University; Physics Department Lines: 28 In-reply-to: woo@ornl.gov's message of 28 May 91 13:57:19 GMT > Is there a way to set up workstations so that if a user types > woo@woonext.dsrd.ornl.gov at login, the login procedure would open a > telnet session to the machine described. I'm looking for a way to > allow people to walk up to a workstation in someone else's office > allow them to access their own workstation without having to have an > account opened or without letting them use a terminal window in > another users open area. It is possible to do this if you hack login... I have seem this sort of function on DEC machine for an Internet<->DECnet gateway where you can login as node::user and it makes a connection for you to the remote machine. I don't know anyone who has done this for anything but protocol gateways though because it means that you are providing a way for people to access the Internet without any controls (like an uncontrolled Terminal server) which people could use to hide their identity when hacking machines. Within an orginization, the way many people handle this sort of thing is to have a global account authentication (served by YP/NIS, Hesiod, Apollo/Domain, etc) which does account validation accross the network. You rely on peer pressure (and when necessary threats) to keep people from abusing the prividge of using other people's workstations. --mark