Network Logins
Peter da Silva
peter at Sugar.NeoSoft.com
Fri Jun 28 08:34:39 AEST 1991
In article <26.Jun.91.180755.70 at cogsci.cog.jhu.edu> wjb at 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. `-_-' <peter at sugar.neosoft.com>.
'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
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