mac address

2001-01-25 Thread TooMany
Hi. First, I will apologize about my bad english... sorry... :(( I need to work with a vpn program under windoze :(, and I will construct a firewall with iptables. I see that the new kernel 2.4 have the possibility to work with mac address. If this is possible, because when the packets arrive

AOL type signup

2001-01-25 Thread StarDrifter
Hello, I was wondering if there would be a way to have a user to sign up for my ISP using an initial logon in the format of AOL's username and password, such as: 6P-9224-5150 GLAD-CARHOP and then when they logon they can change their username and password, just for that 1st time. After that

Re: AOL type signup

2001-01-25 Thread Chris Wagner
You would have to do a good chunk of programming to pull something like that off. You would have to create a "new user" account whose shell would be the main program. That program would decide if the "AOL" crap was valid or not and then proceed to make a new user account. You can put any

Re: AOL type signup

2001-01-25 Thread Mailing List
I have to agree with Chris. Even with all of AOL's programmers and security people (haha), they are still regularly successfully cracked. Do you think you could come up with something to rival AOL? Well... maybe... but good luck ;-) Jason Lim - Original Message - From: "Chris Wagner"