At 04:11 11/7/2005, John Horne wrote:
>Hello,
>
>We are using the ltspinfod process to allow our ltsp server to reboot
>clients. Whilst this works, fine my concern is that there seems to be no
>way (that I can think of) to restrict the shutdown/reboot commands to
>only come from the server. As far as I can tell another user could
>possibly install the relevant parts of ltspinfo on to a (non-ltsp) PC
>and issue the reboot command to our clients - in effect performing a
>DoS.
>
>Anyone know a way to secure ltspinfo commands to only come from a known
>server? We are using LTSP version 4.1.

Aloha,

If the LTSP clients are running inetd (or xinetd), then tcpwrapper should give 
you the control you need for connections to tcp/9200.  See man tcpd.  If 
ltspinfod is running as a full time daemon, perhaps someone could add xinetd 
support to LTSP clients to allow for finer grained access control.

Regards,
Ron


>Many thanks,
>
>John.
>
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>John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK  Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914
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Ronald L Fox                      E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sr. Software Engineer             Phone:  (808) 589-5172
Diagnostic Laboratory Services
Honolulu, Hawaii



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