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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:48:27 -0500
From:      Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        cjclark@home.com, Nicholas Brawn <ncb@zip.com.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Disallow remote login by regular user.
Message-ID:  <20000118114827.A45759@rtfm.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000117195642.B23821@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:56:42PM -0600
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001141203280.3124-100000@zipperii.zip.com.au> <200001140145.UAA15101@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <20000114133222.A18079@rtfm.net> <20000117195642.B23821@futuresouth.com>

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On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 07:56:42PM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> [ Sorry, little bit late... ]
> 
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:32:22PM -0500, a little birdie told me
> that Nathan Dorfman remarked
> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:45:20PM -0500, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > > 
> > > For anything that is going to call login(1), you can use
> > > /etc/login.access(5). That pretty much eliminates stuff like telnet,
> > > rlogin, and console logins. For SSH, look at the 'AllowUsers' and
> > > 'DenyUsers' keywords for the sshd_conf file on the sshd(8)
> > > manpage. And of course, if ftp(1) is an issue, there is /etc/ftpusers
> > > as described in ftpd(8).
> > 
> > You can make sshd use login(1). Set UseLogin to yes in sshd_config. This
> > is (at least sounds like) a good idea just so that login.access(5) and
> > login.conf(5) have their effect.
> 
> Except (at least login.access) they don't.
> 
> Try it.  Never worked for me.

Hmm. You're right, login.access doesn't seem to work, I wonder why...
resource limits and environment settings from login.conf work fine
though.

> -- 
> Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)     |    fullermd@over-yonder.net
> Unix Systems Administrator      |    fullermd@futuresouth.com
> Specializing in FreeBSD         |    http://www.over-yonder.net/
> 
> "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
>       haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"

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Unix Admin @ Frontline Communications    public posts are mine, not FCC's.
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