From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 9:43:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D04137B6D0 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@Rigel.orionsys.com) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA77684; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:41:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@Rigel.orionsys.com) X-Envelope-From: root@Rigel.orionsys.com X-Envelope-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Envelope-Host: freebsd.org. Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:41:39 -0800 (PST) From: David Babler To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: hosts.allow for inetd internals? In-Reply-To: <19047.954320839@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:10:05 PST, David Babler wrote: > > > Quick question... couldn't find an answer in the archives. Is it possible > > to selectively apply host.allow restrictions on processes (specifically > > auth/ident) that are internal to inetd, and if so, what process name > > applies? > > Yes. The difference is that you use the canonical service name (instead > of the daemon name) in /etc/hosts.allow. Thank you, Sheldon! > PS: This is covered in the inetd(8) manual page. I'm not telling you > off; I just don't want you to think that this is arcane wisdom. Doh! So it is... I kept reading the bits about the internal ident server flags and got to the reference to hosts_access(5) and then expected to find the details there. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message