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From: david@terra.igcom.net (David B. Bauman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: ppp restricted account
Date: 12 Jun 1996 01:14:57 GMT
Organization: InterGlobal Communications
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david swartz (davids@icontech.com) wrote:
: 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 ?

Forget about apache, your problem lies on your PPP server.
If you are using the BSDI BSD/OS PPP server, I do not believe that
you can do what you want which is called "packet filtering".
If you are using a terminal server, most likely you can accomplish this
task by setting up a packet filter to only allow packets for your
specified subnet.  You may want  to check with BSDI to see if
they support packet filtering, i do not believe they do.

David Bauman

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