Re: log clients ip from helper program

[Chris Robertson <crobertson@xxxxxxx>]

Beast wrote:
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 14:57 +0700, Beast wrote:
> >
> >  
> > > Is there any way to log client's IP from within a helper program.
> > >     
> >
> > Not from within auth helpers no. The data isn't send there as the
> > authentication scheme cache does not account for the client IP, only the
> > login+password so having the IP sent would confuse some helper authors
> > into thinking that the IP could be used as part of the authentication
> > process.
> >   
>
> Thanks.
> However, it would be a usefull feature if we could use IP, 
> username/password pair to authenticate user, so user could only use 
> one username from one IP.
>
> --beast
Look into max_user_ip and authenticate_ip_ttl.  If you want to limit 
where each user can log in from, that is doable with ACLs.

Chris