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>From: "Guillory, Anthony" <address@hidden> >Organization: NASA/MSFC >Keywords: 200001311730.KAA02738 McIDAS ADDE accounting Anthony, >I'm going to show my limited knowledge of the interworking of Unix/McIDAS >here. But from what I remember we opted not to run the McIDAS accounting >s/w because of security concerns and that's why we opted for the approach >that we did (Unix Services deny/allow files - ok, I don't know the >"official" names but you know what I mean). I talked to my system administrator, and he said that the log messages you sent along are from TCP wrappers. >But you do have a point about >the reverse name lookup. The reason I mentioned this was that it is an important issue in our LDM system also. >I've seen that problem appear before but for other >services - namely telnet and ftp. Will check that one!!!! I'll ask my sysadmin about this. He will probably be able to answer this off of the top of his head. >And to mention >another thing Tom brought out - once you have access to our server you have >access to everything within ADDE there are no limitations other than >read-only. Right. This is the problem I have with both use of TCP wrappers and the SSEC ADDE McIDAS accounting system. I think that the end user should have very fine scale control over data set access. >But I do understand Unidata concern about NLDN data, etc. we >have similar datasets that are not accessible. It seems like every site that I talk to says the exact same thing. There is a general desire to allow just about everyone to get access to most datasets, but there is also a great need to have the ability to deny access to certain datasets on a case-by-case (even user-by-user) basis. >Tom, I agree we (MSFC and Unidata) should talk about data (we have processor >and disk limitations to consider on our end). I understand completely. >Unfortunately, I'll have to >take a look at things a little later in the week. Stay on my case! Will do. You have so much to offer our community that I will have to maintain our dialogue. >I have >to get a talk ready for a Rotary Club talk tomorrow, so I'm kinda rushed at >the moment. Talk to you later... Tom