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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:01:35 -0500
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        'Alfred Perlstein' <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        'Ertan Kucukoglu' <ert@hotpop.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: 'ppp -alias' can i restrict usage for some users?
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D6C@site2s1>

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How would ipfw determine the username if the connection is coming from a
remote machine?

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@wintelcom.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, November 10, 1999 5:54 PM
> To:	Christopher Michaels
> Cc:	'Ertan Kucukoglu'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	RE: 'ppp -alias' can i restrict usage for some users?
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Ertan Kucukoglu [SMTP:ert@hotpop.com]
> > > Sent:	Friday, November 05, 1999 3:32 PM
> > > To:	freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > > Subject:	'ppp -alias' can i restrict usage for some users?
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Suppose that I run ppp with command line like 'ppp -alias ...'. And I
> want
> > > some of my users to use direct internet access (others use proxy
> server)
> > > and others do not.
> > > 
> > > Can I do above story?
> > > 
> > Users or machines?
> > 
> > I don't belive you can do this on a per-user basis.  Would you should be
> > able to do is setup ipfirewall to restrict traffic going over the ppp
> link
> > from certain machines.
> 
> ipfw allows per-uid settings (at least in 4.0) ppp has some
> 'ipfw-like' features built in that can block certain IPs based on
> source/destination.
> 
> I think it's a matter of studying the documentation, this should
> definetly be possible.
> 
> -Alfred
> 
> 
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