restricting guest accounts to reading local webpages

From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 03:59:54 -0800
To: Mica Currie <aa146@valleynet.bc.ca>
Cc: csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca
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On Jun 18,  1:02pm, Mica Currie wrote:
} On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, John Nemeth wrote:
} 
} >      I would like to get a general consensus on whether people think it
} > would be a good idea to restrict guest accounts to only reading
} > webpages on the local machine.  We have done this in Victoria.  The
} > reason for doing this is to encourage people to register for accounts
} > as opposed to just logging in as guests all the time.  What does
} > everybody think?
}
} I agree 100%, our problem has been that 99% of our connections are ppp and
} until we replace the radius admin stuff later this spring we can't
} directly control their access on a per user level.

     CSuite does not support PPP natively (at this time).  This
restriction would only apply to people logging into a CSuite server and
using the native Lynx interface.

}-- End of excerpt from Mica Currie

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