Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Security and logins Message-ID: <9671@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 26 Sep 89 15:06:31 GMT References: <480@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <113@tons61.UUCP> Reply-To: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 20 In article <113@tons61.UUCP> harrys@tons61.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes: ] ]Here at the DOT we have a login.c program that can secure any terminal or ]lockout any user from any terminal with a few configuration files. The ]source was obtained from our vendor but the basic source was of USENET ]postings. In /etc there are files such as /etc/securetty /etc/nologin ]/etc/issue [*sic*] and others that allow configuration of modem ports, This was originally written by a local user, Dave Ihnat (ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us) for chinet a number of years ago. Conditional compiles for SysV, V7, XENIX, BSD, privledged lines, privledged users based on uid, gid, login shell (i.e. uucico for uucp only lines), passwd ageing, lastlog capabilities, etc. I believe he either did or is in the process of adding /etc/shadow. Source available. -randy -- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us