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hadgraft@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft, Civil staff, ext 4983) writes:

>We have a situation at Monash where access to telnet, ftp, etc is prohibited 
>from our PC Labs because we cannot guarantee that we can trace who the user is 
>(an AARNet requirement apparently). This is a nuisance because it also measn 
>barring access to wais, gopher, www, etc which are emerging technologies, and 
>which could have interesting implications for distance education and 
>resource-based learning.

>Are other universities the same? Is this a reasonable policy in the light of 
>users on other machines (eg. Unix) being able to forge new items etc even when 
>logged in?

If you are using some sort of Firewall system, one possible suggestion
is to setup some port redirectors on the FireWall machine.

These port redirectors will redirect from the Machine, out to the internet
to a pre-designated site. Therefore the users INSIDE the PC net can
access handy services like thoes you mentioned, but don't just have
access to everything. You are basically limiting what they can access.

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Anthony Rumble
aka SmilieZ
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