Controlling access to workstations

Oren Shani shani at GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL
Thu May 30 20:14:43 AEST 1991


Okay, Okay, Once and for all, this is how it is done:

1) Create netgroups (in /etc/netgroup), including the users list
   for each workstation. e.g.:

ws1_users 		\
	(,jenny,)	\
	(,jim,)

ws2_users		\
	(,jack,)	\
	(,greg,)

etc.. (of course, you may use any valid combination of previously defined
groups, etc.)

2) the password file of each workstation, should include all non humans and
   an entry of the form
+ at ws?_users:

   and that's all. This will allow only users of group ws?_users to acess that
   workstation.

There are some improuvments to this basic scheme that may come to mind, but
this is the basic idea.

Cheers, 
	
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 /  /     /
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