Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Network Logins Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1991May28.135719.13805@cs.utk.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 15:56:09 GMT In article <1991May28.135719.13805@cs.utk.edu> woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes: > 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 without every giving access to the physical > machine he's standing in front of? I'm looking for a way to allow people to > walk up to a workstation in someone else's office and (with their permission) > 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. Has this been done? Is it doable? How? Sure it's doable. Just set up an account called "telnet", then have a program that's run on login (preferably as the login shell) that asks for a remote system name and establishes a connection to it. We have an account on all our systems called "vt" that does this. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"