Firewalls: Re: TCPWrappers by Username

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Subject:	Re: TCPWrappers by Username
From:	Darrell Fuhriman <darrell @ teleport . com>
Date:	Sat, 23 Sep 1995 13:09:00 -0700 (PDT)
To:	Louis C Watta <watta @ auntbea . rtp . gtegsc . com>
Cc:	firewalls @ greatcircle . com

On Sat, 23 Sep 1995, Louis C Watta wrote:

> client so that means it has to run NIS+ and I don't understand NIS+ enough
> to know if I can prevent logins to a  particular machine.

I don't know if NIS+ is different, but under NIS, we just setup our 
password file like this:

root:##root:blah...
goodguy1+
goodguy2+
+::::::/usr/local/bin/noshell

/usr/local/bin/noshell is just echoes "you don't have access to this 
machine" and then dumps them.  Pretty straightforward.

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