Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 22:13:09 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Brawn <ncb@zip.com.au> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: legal notice for telnet/etc Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9905282206050.32747-100000@zipper.zip.com.au> In-Reply-To: <671.927888503@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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For the systems I'm looking at, the main entry points into the system will be: - Telnet - FTP - SSH - SFTP/SCP Telnet and Ftp banners look relatively simple to implement. But it looks a bit tricky with ssh without displaying until the user has logged in. Alternatively you could get them to sign a legal document prior to granting them access to IT resources which discusses what authority they have over what, which is already a recommendation. If it cannot be displayed until a user logs in (/etc/motd), nobody's going to die. And if you say they may be able to quell such notices via .hushlogin, we can add something to /etc/profile to display notices, or even specify a program as their shell which does nothing more than displaying the notice before dropping them into a shell. At this stage I'm keen to find out what simply solutions there are available. If I need to tinker, so be it. :) Thanks to everyone for the input, Nick On Fri, 28 May 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 May 1999 03:12:17 MST, "Jan B. Koum " wrote: > > > Argh! Hell. There is not good way to get your message across. If > > l^Huser choose not to read it, they will not read it no matter what. :( > > Nicholas isn't looking for a way to force text upon people who have > logged into the system. He wants to force text upon people who are > presented with a login prompt. > > The short and sweet of it is that there is no unified mechanism for > this. You'll have to identify all entry points and either tickle or > kludge, depending on the flexibility of each. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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