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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 1997 00:53:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Password files and virtual IP addresses
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971023005117.23413D-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971022103356.10892B-100000@darkstar.home>

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We have a whole virtual machine
using chroot, and a few other tricks such as a hacked inetd.
It was described recently on either hackers or questions (I forget which)
by Doug Ambrisko. (I think it was questions)

julian


On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Charles Mott wrote:

> Suppose that one wanted to create different virtual
> IP addresses with ifconfig alias, and when people telnet
> or ftp or access pop3/imap2 at a virtual address, a
> password file specific to that virtual address would be
> used.  This would allow username re-use.
> 
> Has this sort of thing been considered before?  If not,
> what sort of things would have to be hacked?  If password
> access routines could somehow be informed what virtual
> address they were being accessed from, then it would
> be possible to have multiple password files.
> 
> Of course, there are always unintended security
> implications to doing these things...
> 
> Charles Mott
> 
> 




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