On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, Graham Jose wrote:
> Are there any firewall or proxy server products available that will allow
> outgoing user authentication based upon a user id, rather than an IP address?
>
> Our users are mobile and this makes it difficult to restrict internet access on a
> per user basis, since their source IP address is likely to change.
>
This sounds pretty unsafe! How do you prevent me from spoofing one of
your users?
Later,
Ron Dufresne
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