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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:45:34 +0500 (ESK)
From:      "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does anybody need it ?
Message-ID:  <199612031045.PAA20184@hq.icb.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <5202.849609347@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 3, 96 02:35:47 am

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> 
> > The idea is to limit certain logins to be accessible from
> > certain hosts only. So I added a database that describes allowed
> > hosts, say /etc/userhost.conf, in format like:
> 
> This sounds a lot like the functionality already provided by
> tcpwrappers, though these admittedly are not a default part of the
> system.  Have you looked into this?

Really a wrapper can't do this: it knows only the port, not login
name. But it was already pointed to me that login.access already
does this. I was not the first one who needed it :-)

-SB



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