Restrict access to a single client device

Michael D. Sofka sofkam at rpi.edu
Thu Jan 31 14:04:52 EST 2013


I would like to see this too. Sometimes the user is less trustworthy 
than the device.  Not that I have any ideas on how to do this, but I 
maybe locking the client id to the user id.

Mike


On 01/31/2013 07:56 AM, Dale J Chatham wrote:
> If you can't predict the IP, I am not aware of a way to do what you want.
>
> Try using authentication to verify the user, not the device.
>
>
>
> On 01/31/2013 12:22 AM, Ram wrote:
>> On 01/30/2013 08:11 PM, Dale J Chatham wrote:
>>> If a Linux box, best place is likely /etc/hosts.deny
>>>
>>> http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl5_hostsde.htm
>> Sorry,
>> I should have mentioned that the IP address of the device may change
>>
>> For eg,
>> If I want to restrict access to a single LAPTOP, wether the employee
>> uses it from home or from office it should work
>> But not from anywhere else
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 01/30/2013 08:29 AM, Ram wrote:
>>>> Can I restrict access to my imap servers from a single device only
>>>> The server is not on the same LAN , So I cannot do a mac-binding
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Ram
>>>>
>>>>
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