Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:34:19 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: francisv@dagupan.com Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tcp_wrappers? Message-ID: <3B39FCFB.66DF666D@magpage.com> References: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A908F5EE@chat.dagupan.com>
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francisv@dagupan.com wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm just wondering what happened to Wietse's tcp wrappers on FreeBSD > 4.3-STABLE systems -- I could not find it! I went to the ports tree to > manually install it but I was barred by the system because it was already > part of the base system :/ > man inetd.conf tcp-wrappers *is* part of the base system and is enabled by default for services run by inetd by the inetd_flags line in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. For services not run thru inetd, like sshd, tcp-wrappers support is generally there by default, assuming the daemon was compiled with libwrap support. check out man sshd. What all this means is that you can usually just configure /etc/hosts.allow and the services you include will be wrapped. hope this helps... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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