Preventing Dial-ins ?? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:54:35 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Pete Holsberg shaped the electrons to say...
>I believe I can do this by dropping the Unix authetication
>and building a users file on the PM for the users who are
>permitted to dial in. (The other camp would get Unix
>accounts that give them Internet access while one campus.)
>But there are a lot of people who would have both on- and
>off-campus access, and I'd like to try to avoid creating an
>PM account and a Unix account for these folks.

Creat entries in the users file for people who CANNOT dialin with bogus
passwords. A simple one liner will do.

joeblow Password = "Noway"

They'll match this and fail login, other users will get the DEFAULT entry
and get in as usual.

A lot less work than making entries for all the legit users.

-MZ

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