From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from executioner.lis.net.au([203.35.83.3]) (2004 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:03:07 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from uucp by executioner.lis.net.au with local-rmail (Exim 2.05 #1) id 13oLWa-0007mH-00 (Debian); Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:03:04 +1100 Received: from kerry by gotss.eu.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 13oKxA-0000Bs-00 (Debian); Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:26:28 +1100 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:26:27 +1100 From: Kerry Hoath To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Root access (was RE: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?) Message-ID: <20001025182627.H642@gotss.eu.org> References: <3.0.6.32.20001023205511.007d1db0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from gshang10@scu.edu.au on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:27:33PM +1100 List-Id: If you are running ident it can reject specific users but since ident is trivial to forge and windows ident can send anything you like along with some Unix ones; the protection isn't really worth it On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:27:33PM +1100, Geoff Shang wrote: > Hi: > > /etc/securetty has nothing to do with IP addresses or ETH0, it's merely > concerned with TTY devices (either /dev/ttyXX or /dev/pts/xx). If you want > to restrict access to various IP addresses then use host.allow and > host.deny, but this only works for blanket access to services like SSH , > FTP, telnet, etc, and is not used to accept or reject particular users. > > Geoff. > > > -- > Geoff Shang > ICQ number 43634701 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- -- Kerry Hoath: kerry@gotss.eu.org Alternates: kerry@emusys.com.au kerry@gotss.spice.net.au or khoath@lis.net.au ICQ UIN: 62823451