I'm a newbie manager desperately treading water. I'm after any URL's for
docs explaining the use of "TCP Wrapping" when it comes to tracing the
origin terminal of a process when the user is on the other side of a
term server.
For Example:
$ps
PID TTY S TIME COMMAND
19645 ttytb I + 0:01.65 udt
- Now I KNOW that the "ttytb" has got almost NOTHING to do with the
terminal I'm working on.
Actually anything on "TCP Wrapping" would be useful. Even recommended
books
I've tried Alta-Vista with not much luck & the list archive - which gave
hints to try the TIS firewall toolkit (which I'll look into).
My real query I guess is "what does TCP Wrapping actually *DO*?" and
also "Why do term-servers mask the origin terminal of the process?"
summary will be provided of course.
TIA
Dave
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Clinical Account Manager, Information Systems
Healthcare Otago (Dunedin NZ)
Ph internal: 8453 External: 64-3-4747699
email: daveb_at_healthotago.co.nz
Pretentious quote of the week:
>"The first step on the road to wisdom is the admission of ignorance. The
>second step is realising that you don't have to blab it to the world"
Joseph C Giarratano
Received on Thu Oct 24 1996 - 02:44:34 NZDT