The patch: http://cipres.cec.uchile.cl/~agm/pam_access/ I create this simple patch for pam_access; so you can specify a diferent access.conf file for every service (Or the default /etc/security/access.conf, if not specified). For ex: /etc/pam.d/sshd #specify accessfile account required /lib/security/pam_access.so accessfile=/etc/security/access.sshd.conf /etc/pam.d/login #default accessfile account required /lib/security/pam_access.so This permits ftp and/or pop (I use cucipop because imap doesn't set PAM_RHOST) access but not telnet for some folks, or telnet for them for just some hosts, etc... well, there are millions of configurations. All is very elegant and even sshd supports pam... I think its a useful and necesary (and crucial for me :-) feature, so I would like it to be included in the next release of pam. This patch is as simple as unparanoic, maybe some audit is necessary. Aldrin.