Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-19 Thread Grant
mysql only needs to connect to a daemon running on the same system, and I think it does so via a unix socket as opposed to tcp. I can see from netstat that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock is connected, there is no mention of a tcp mysql connection, and nmap does not show a mysql >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-19 Thread kashani
Grant wrote: mysql only needs to connect to a daemon running on the same system, and I think it does so via a unix socket as opposed to tcp. I can see from netstat that /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock is connected, there is no mention of a tcp mysql connection, and nmap does not show a mysql port to

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-19 Thread Grant
>> >> I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure >> >> only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to >> >> explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there >> >> different types of users so that some can only log into certain >> >> ser

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 20:12:28 Grant wrote: > >> I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > >> only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to > >> explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there > >> different types of users so t

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-18 Thread Grant
>> I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure >> only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to >> explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there >> different types of users so that some can only log into certain >> services? >> >> Fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 18 January 2009 00:09:31 Grant wrote: > I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to > explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there > different types of users so that some can

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Saturday January 17 2009 20:09:31 Grant wrote: > I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > only certain users can log into certain services? Depends on the service and how it is configured. Can you be more specific on what services yo want limited access?

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services

2009-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 17 Januar 2009, Grant wrote: > I have some users on a system and some services. How can I make sure > only certain users can log into certain services? Do I need to > explicitly define which users can log into each service? Are there > different types of users so that some can only lo