> -----Original Message-----
> It's a question of control. With coteries you can let less
> privileged
> users come in from anywhere but restrict SYSDBA (or whatever) to
> specific hosts or hosts strictly behind the firewall.

This sounds like a good idea, and certainly one which enhances an RFE I
added in January
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1108195&group_id=9
028&atid=359028). More and more web hosts are starting to allow customers
to use FB, imo, a block at the firewall level is not a good solution, if
your customers have dynamic ip at home/office and want to connect and their
new IP is not in the list they can't get in. Allowing FB to control this
would be a fantastic enhancement.

Rgds

Si Carter
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