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From: rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: wanted: return caller program
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Date: 14 Dec 88 06:17:09 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 51, message 4 of 10
X-Issue-Reference: v7n31

In v7n31, Steve Harris writes:
>  What with all the publicity about the virus, management is suddenly
>  becoming very security consicous.  ...  They want to be sure our
>  network will not be raped by some cracker dialing in on our new lines.
>  The following solution has been proposed: ...
>  I can see that there might be some tricky stuff in writing such a program.
>  ... I'd much rather use somebody else's program than write one from scratch.

We have had such a program running reliably for over 4 years.  "Callback"
is available as part of the System Manager's Toolkit (SMT), from the
Berkeley Campus Software Office.  Contact Claire LeDonne
(ledonne@violet.berkeley.edu) for details.

Good luck!

R. P. C. Rodgers, M.D.                  Telephone:
Statistical Mechanics of Biomolecules   (415)476-8910 (work)
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry  (415)664-0560 (home)
University of California, Box 1204      E-mail:
Laurel Heights Campus, Room 102         ARPA:   rodgers@cca.ucsf.edu
3333 California St.                             rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu
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