From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 21 08:39:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA28236 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:39:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bert.club-web.com (bert.club-web.com [207.176.196.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA28225 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 08:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from club-web.com (ernie.club-web.com [207.176.196.12]) by bert.club-web.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA02667 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:42:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33FC61C0.A5F0F798@club-web.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 11:41:52 -0400 From: Mark Segal Organization: Club-Web Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02b7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote Administration Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Brown wrote: > > I am setting up an ISP server running FreeBSD and would like to deny all > shell access to my server but keep myself a way to get into the server for > remote administration. Any ideas on the best way to accomplish this? Two ways.. either attach a modem to the box itself and dial-in to the server, or (using tcp/ip_wrappers) only allow access from certain boxes, ie your desktop. mark -- Mark Segal mark@club-web.com System Administrator - Club-Web Inc.