Network Logins

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991May28.135719.13805 at cs.utk.edu> woo at ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) writes:
> Is there a way to set up workstations so that if a user types
>  woo at 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.
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Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180;
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