Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-19 Thread Grant
I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some can only log into certain services? For

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-19 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: mysql only needs to connect to a daemon running on the same system, and I think it does so via a unix socket as opposed to tcp. I can see from netstat that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock is connected, there is no mention of a tcp mysql connection, and nmap does not show a mysql port

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-19 Thread Grant
mysql only needs to connect to a daemon running on the same system, and I think it does so via a unix socket as opposed to tcp. I can see from netstat that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock is connected, there is no mention of a tcp mysql connection, and nmap does not show a mysql port to be open.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-18 Thread Grant
I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some can only log into certain services? For example, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 20:12:28 Grant wrote: I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some

[gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some can only log into certain services? For example, I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some can only log

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday January 17 2009 20:09:31 Grant wrote: I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Depends on the service and how it is configured. Can you be more specific on what services yo want limited access?

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:09:31 Grant wrote: I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there different types of users so that some can