> Seriously, I'm wondering what "security restrictions" are so > onerous that users are willing to change their IP addresses to > get around them, and why they are there in the first place?
Well in certain cases it's company policy that certain machines (ie: users) can't browse the web during certain hours. I didn't make the rules, just asked to implement them. > Finally, I'll suggest that if you truly want to implement this > thing, that the "correct" way to do it is probably to use the > per machine NT Domain Controller information via hacking up the > code from the SAMBA project, so that you can *ask* the NT domain > controller for the credentials associated with an IP address, > since this access control model is why NT Domaons were designed. True, but often the simplest, semi-reliable solution wins out, so it came down to machines and MAC addresses. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
