Root access (was RE: which prebuilt linux boxes seem to work best?)

[Kerry Hoath]

If you are running ident it can reject specific users but since ident
is trivial to forge and windows ident can send anything you like
along with some Unix ones; the protection isn't really worth it
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 05:27:33PM +1100, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> /etc/securetty has nothing to do with IP addresses or ETH0, it's merely
> concerned with TTY devices (either /dev/ttyXX or /dev/pts/xx).  If you want
> to restrict access to various IP addresses then use host.allow and
> host.deny, but this only works for blanket access to services like SSH ,
> FTP, telnet, etc, and is not used to accept or reject particular users.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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