From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 22 15:21:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA04315 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA04302 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:21:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA02145; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:21:30 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA02010; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:10:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971023001043.MK60020@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:10:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: cmott@srv.net (Charles Mott) Subject: Re: Password files and virtual IP addresses References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Charles Mott on Oct 22, 1997 10:43:21 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Mott wrote: > Suppose that one wanted to create different virtual > IP addresses with ifconfig alias, and when people telnet > or ftp or access pop3/imap2 at a virtual address, a > password file specific to that virtual address would be > used. This would allow username re-use. Make a standalone telnetd that doesn't bind to INADDR_ANY, but to each virtual address separately, and make them call different login programs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)