Network Logins

[Peter da Silva]

In article <26.Jun.91.180755.70 at cogsci.cog.jhu.edu> wjb at cogsci.cog.jhu.edu writes:
> 	Yes, it is doable, but it isn't always advisible.  Ferranti.com
> seems to only have MX records in the DNS and I don't know whether or not you
> publish your modem dialup numbers.

We don't. But more importantly we have a login front-end that looks
at its environment and decides if a user is authorised to log in on
a particular port. Thus, we only have a small number of people who can
login on the modems. It'd be just as easy to disallow login as the
remote login user from a remote login. After all, if you're already
logging in over the network you don't need that capability, right?

> 	It would be nice if concerns about security never affected the
> services that are made available to users, but sometimes that just isn't
> possible.

I agree. But I don't think this is that sort of a case.
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