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- From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble)
- Subject: Re: PC access to AARNet - tracing the user
- Message-ID: <arumble.728197137@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- References: <hadgraft.301.728179190@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:58:57 GMT
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- hadgraft@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft, Civil staff, ext 4983) writes:
-
- >We have a situation at Monash where access to telnet, ftp, etc is prohibited
- >from our PC Labs because we cannot guarantee that we can trace who the user is
- >(an AARNet requirement apparently). This is a nuisance because it also measn
- >barring access to wais, gopher, www, etc which are emerging technologies, and
- >which could have interesting implications for distance education and
- >resource-based learning.
-
- >Are other universities the same? Is this a reasonable policy in the light of
- >users on other machines (eg. Unix) being able to forge new items etc even when
- >logged in?
-
- If you are using some sort of Firewall system, one possible suggestion
- is to setup some port redirectors on the FireWall machine.
-
- These port redirectors will redirect from the Machine, out to the internet
- to a pre-designated site. Therefore the users INSIDE the PC net can
- access handy services like thoes you mentioned, but don't just have
- access to everything. You are basically limiting what they can access.
-
- --
- Anthony Rumble
- aka SmilieZ
- "Anything is possible.. If there is enuf money in it"
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