/etc/login.access suspicious statement

Thomas L. Kjeldsen tlk at mayi.dk
Fri Mar 19 04:27:40 PST 2004


Hi Rob

Rob wrote:
> 
> This is 4.9-STABLE.
> 
> In /etc/login.access I find these lines:
> 
>   # Disallow non-local logins to privileged accounts (group wheel).
>   #
>   #-:wheel:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL .win.tue.nl
> 
> What is the ".win.tue.nl" doing here?

It simply serves as an example written by guido@ the author.

In my experience, people sometimes use their university's, employer's or
personal domain name as examples in configuration files. It is nothing
else but a harmless I-was-here tag from the author.


regards,
	Thomas


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