[1257] in Release_7.7_team
Re: rc.conf variable for default Athena inetd state
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Apr 16 00:07:45 1998
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 16 Apr 1998 00:07:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: Mike Barker's message of Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:55:25 -0400
Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I think there may be a misunderstanding about the purpose of access_on
> (and access_off). This is intended to be a command used while a user is
> logged on to allow other people to telnet into the machine. I.e., it is
> intentionally temporary.
As Greg mentioned in his reply, this would be for machines like those
in SIPB's office; we normally want people to log in remotely to these
machines, but we'd also like to let people logged in on the console
temporarily disable remote access if they don't want anyone logging in
under them. I don't know how common this setup is elsewhere on campus.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
