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Re: Athena Logins

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Nov 6 19:59:12 1994

To: montwill@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Nov 1994 18:21:55 EST."
             <199411062321.SAA00757@sc-contact.mit.edu> 
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 19:58:56 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>


> Is it possible to have terminal logins work analogously to the
> xlogins as provided in the xlogin package? (ie check the kerberos
> password of the user and attach his/her directory without worrying
> about local acounts...)

We have a /bin/login replacement for this, but we haven't released it
yet.  You can get the source from /mit/linux-athena/login, if you want
to compile it yourself.

If you do install it, you'll need to touch /etc/noremote if you want
to prevent random people from telnetting to your machine.


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