Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:56:34 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppgetty Message-ID: <199611041556.QAA02631@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199611041413.IAA04882@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 4, 96 08:13:39 am
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> Jordan, > > I am not particularly thrilled about the idea of modems on the same box > as interactive logins, as it can be a security risk (think of what could ... > that ran on the 386DX/25 :-) A modified getty and login presents a > "normal" banner and login: prompt and then waits for input. A central > server is then contacted, and returns a reply based on local policy as > to what to do with the user (local login, remote login, etc)... all > very transparently. is this something similar to what mgetty does ? It has a "login.config" file which can take the appropriate decision basing on login name (not real Regular Expressions are supported, but that shouldn't be too hard). Maybe your stuff is more flexible, though. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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