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title: Restricting client access
description: Restrict client access to PingDirectory.
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# Restricting client access

One way to prevent clients from gaining unauthorized access to the data is to prevent unauthorized clients from establishing connections or to terminate connections if conditions change in a way that the server determines is no longer acceptable.