> Sometimes we have very small MIDAS installations, i.e. just one machine by itself, and such setups should be secure/secured easily -
> too much work to setup an external firewall box just for one machine and OS-level firewall rules sometimes conflict
> with some OS services (i.e. NIS) (I am still waiting for the "NIS to LDAP migration for dummies" guide).

I fully agree with you. So if you find time to implement this, I will be more than happy.

/Stefan