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Limiting Access to Your WN Hierarchy
If you have opted to limit access to your server you do so by
setting the value of Accessfile in the index file for a directory.
MORE TO BE WRITTEN HERE.
This will limit access to the server to those
clients with an IP address or subnet address listed (and not excluded)
in the file .access in the root data directory. The format of the
.access file is one address per line, each line consisting of an IP
address like 129.111.222.123 or a subnet address like 129.111.222 or
129.111. In case a subnet address is listed, any client with an IP
address beginning with that subnet address will be allowed access.
You may also list the domain names of the machines using wildcards provided
the machines all have proper PTR domain name records. To allow access to
all machines under nwu.edu, use the line *.nwu.edu. Note that this
will not allow access to a machine called nwu.edu if it exists. One would
need to add in the record nwu.edu to allow access.
You can also exclude IP addresses or domain names by prefixing them
with an '!', so if .access contained only the lines
!speedy.acns.nwu.edu
*
Access would be permitted to every machine except speedy. Likewise
!129.111
*
would allow access to everyone except those on subnet 129.111. It
MORE TO BE WRITTEN HERE.
WN -- for those who think the Web should be more than a
user friendly interface to ftp
John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
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