jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens) (09/19/89)
In article <16478@watdragon.waterloo.edu> dwtill@watyew.waterloo.edu (Dave Till) writes: >I'm curious: why is there a restriction on how orchid is accessed >by means of the "rlogin" command? I tried to log on to it today, and >got this: > > Remote access restricted to regular terminal ports. > >Can anybody clear up why such a limitation is necessary? What does this message mean? How can you have remote access on a regular terminal port? (I'm assuming it comes from one of our facist commands.)
jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (09/23/89)
From: "John M. Sellens" <jmsellens> | From wcwince@watmath.waterloo.edu Tue Sep 19 09:38:56 1989 | From: "Bill Ince [MFCF]" <wcwince@watmath> | To: jmsellens@watdragon | Subject: Re: orchid rlogin restriction | Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.bugs | References: <16478@watdragon.waterloo.edu> | Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario | Cc: | | In article <16488@watdragon.waterloo.edu> you write: | >In article <16478@watdragon.waterloo.edu> dwtill@watyew.waterloo.edu (Dave Till) writes: | >>I'm curious: why is there a restriction on how orchid is accessed | >>by means of the "rlogin" command? I tried to log on to it today, and | >>got this: | >> | >> Remote access restricted to regular terminal ports. | >> | >>Can anybody clear up why such a limitation is necessary? | > | >What does this message mean? How can you have remote access on a regular | >terminal port? (I'm assuming it comes from one of our facist commands.) | | The login restrictions were requested by the those that run | the courses that Orchid is dedicated to. | The # of students doubled this term, and they got worried | about Orchid being able to handle the load. | You can add yourself to group 'rlogin' on Orchid. | What I meant was the the error message makes no sense. You can't restrict remote access to using regular terminal ports, because you can't use a regular terminal port remotely. The message should say something like "Remote access not allowed. Use Sytek terminal ports only."