Re: Restricting users

Dave Andersen (angio@aros.net)
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 13:27:28 -0600 (MDT)

Lo and behold, Kevin M Lynn once said:

> > I have some users that I want to restrict to only be able to send and
> > recieve email - is there any way to use PM or Radius capabilities to
> > restrict incoming dial-in users to certain network services?
>
> This is very difficult.. the only way I know of is to create a
> configuration file for pine that specifically says that no one is allowed
> to shell out.. and then set pine as their shell in /etc/passwd..

Alternately, you could create a filter for the users which only
allows them to connect to SMTP, POP2, and POP3 ports and let them use
slip/ppp with Eudora or something on their ends.

-Dave Andersen

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