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Subject: Re: X-terminals & EPICS security
From: [email protected] (Gary Carr)
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:20:47 -0700
Its fairly easy to configure EPICS security by login account.
We use various captive accounts that have different security restrictions,
for example one of them has only read-only access to data. Our captive
accounts are also setup so that they can only run from selected hosts or
Xterminals.

You might be able to write some scripts to only allow access to certain
accounts from certain X-terminls, and setup EPICS security by the accounts.
Practically speaking the accounts would probably need to be captive. I
don't know if that is a viable solution for you.


At 09:31 AM 1/21/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>From: "Paul Sichta" <[email protected]>
>>To: <[email protected]>
>>Subject: X-terminals & EPICS security
>>Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:07:28 -0500
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> 
>> I want to implement EPICS security to place control restrictions based upon
>> the physical location  (control room, experimental areas)  of our OPI's,
>> which are all  X-terminals 'served' from a single host (Sun).   All of the
>> CA clients are run on our host,  and Channel Access (security) does not
>> 'know' where the medm displays are located.
>> 
>> Is there a way I can configure the access security configuration file to use
>> the names/IP address of the individual X-terminals ?
>> 
>> 
>
>
>No.  I was told <since Channel Access Security was born> that to implement
this
>feature would make it difficult to port to other operating systems. I was
>encouraged to do this with "prudent system administration" rather than 
>channel access security. I never figured out how to do that either.
>
>
>
>	Ned
>	



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