Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Network Logins Message-ID: <1991Jun27.223439.514@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 22:34:39 GMT References: <1991May28.135719.13805@cs.utk.edu> <26.Jun.91.180755.70@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 20 In article <26.Jun.91.180755.70@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu> wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu writes: > Yes, it is doable, but it isn't always advisible. Ferranti.com > seems to only have MX records in the DNS and I don't know whether or not you > publish your modem dialup numbers. We don't. But more importantly we have a login front-end that looks at its environment and decides if a user is authorised to log in on a particular port. Thus, we only have a small number of people who can login on the modems. It'd be just as easy to disallow login as the remote login user from a remote login. After all, if you're already logging in over the network you don't need that capability, right? > It would be nice if concerns about security never affected the > services that are made available to users, but sometimes that just isn't > possible. I agree. But I don't think this is that sort of a case. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"