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Date:      Wed, 07 Nov 2001 12:26:26 -0500
From:      Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com>
To:        Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Any progress on bin/25263? was: Re: login.access borked???
Message-ID:  <3BE96EC2.70603@magpage.com>
References:  <3BE852D5.1080902@magpage.com>

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Daniel Frazier wrote:

> /etc/login.access doesn't seem to be working as expected.  I've tried
> to restrict logins using all the different values in the origin field
> that I can think of, but the only one that works as expected is if I
> use ALL.  If I have this line...
> 
> -:dfrazier:ALL
> 
> ...I am prevented from logging into the server as dfrazier from my
> workstation, but if I use this line...
> 
> -:dfrazier:216.155.24.136
> 
> ...I can log in even though that is my workstation's ip.  Is anyone
> successfully using login.access to restrict logins to specific login
> id's?
> 

ok, it seems that I'm running into the problem described in bin/25263,
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25263.  Any progress on
this?   I know a workaround would be to use hostnames in login.access,
but they're too easily spoofed to make me feel confident that I'm
restricting root logins like I want to.

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