Re[2]: /etc/shells (was Re: procmail

[ewedel () MERIDIAN-DATA COM (Eric Wedel)]

So far, suggestions have focused on user-level attributes.
Some of the proposed controls might equally well apply
to groups.  (For the record I don't advocate single-character
flags, though that seems to be a *nix tradition.)

Warning:  this thread could get really long.  :-)

regards, Eric Wedel

>         how about extending the passwd fields one more after the shell so
> that mine would be something like
>
> auderho:x:1298:1:Jauder Ho:/export/home/jauderho:/usr/local/bin/tcsh:tf
>
> with single letters representing different options , we can have 62 if we
> use all the numerals , upper and lower cases of the alphabet.
>
> so let's say that t stands for telnet allowed, ftp allowed ...
>
> this allows pretty fine grained control over users.
>
> --Jauder
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, der Mouse wrote:
(snip)
> > I can see only two solutions.  One would be to make each service
> > maintain its own list of users that are forbidden (or, alternatively,
> > allowed); the other would be to extend the passwd database (or,
> > equivalently, maintain a parallel database) so as to allow tagging each
> > user with arbitrary flags like "ftp access allowed" or "mail forward to
> > pipe forbidden".
> >
> > Anyone have any comments on either, or any other alternatives to
> > suggest?
> >
> >                                         der Mouse
> >
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