On Friday 08 March 2002 15.00, Mailing Lists wrote:
Dear sirs; this is my first post... wow! Besides that. I have a little problem: i mounted a server on a LAN DHCP-based, but the server has a static IP. On this server, runs an application that is configurable via web; so that Apache runs on that machine. My question is: how can i grant the administrative access only to the hosts i want, knowing i have got no IP on which rely to use IPTable or something like that???
You could use iptables rules that match the mac address of your allowed machine. It's not infallible, unless the other users on the LAN don't have root (Administrator) access. You would also have to change the rule when you change network card in the admin box. But the normal thing is probably to have some sort of encrypted connection (ssl, perhaps ssh tunneling), and allow access based on password or similar. //Anders