Re: Restricting logins by IP address

[ilaiy <ilaiy.e () gmail com>]

Try using /etc/hosts.allow

Give the IP address of which you would want to allow

and your /etc/hosts.deny should look like this

ALL: ALL

./thanks
ilaiy

On 10/19/05, Keenan Smith <kc_smith () clark net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've got a machine running IRIX (SGI's Unix) and have a need to control
> access based on IP address.
>
> Similar to the way root can be restricted to logging in only at the
> console, is it possible to restrict logins by regular users to specific
> IP addresses?
>
> What I've got is a directory "ABC" and a user "Larry".  I setup Larry to
> have ABC as his home directory.  What I want to do is restrict Larry's
> login to a specific IP address so if he attempts a login from computer
> "123" it will succeed but if he tries from computer 456, it will fail.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Keenan Smith