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From: davids@icontech.com (david swartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: ppp restricted account
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 14:09:56 GMT
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>This is the second posting of this question. I was not able to view news for 
>two days and my local news provider evidently does not keep news for more 
than 
>four days....
>
>I would like to establish ppp account which would allow dial-in users to view
>local WEB pages but not have the capability to reach the Internet, sort of 
the
>same idea as a mail only account. This would be a local WEB page account, and 
>there would only be one account for   ALL  users of this type.  We are using 
>BSDI 2.1 with the Apache server. Anyone have any ideas ?

So far the ideas are not applicable that I can see. I don't have spare 
equipment yet and we only have one T1 circuit back to Sprint so I can't change
the router configuration. There has to be a way either a special shell or
net mask or IP filtering which will allow this to happen ... any BSDI 2.1 
experts out there ?