Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:27:43 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Torsten Blum <torstenb@onizuka.tb.9715.org> Cc: mark@grondar.za, ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. Message-ID: <19970912172743.64756@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <m0x9RYo-0006haC@onizuka.tb.9715.org>; from Torsten Blum on Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:58:42AM %2B0200 References: <19970911075604.13003@klemm.gtn.com> <m0x9RYo-0006haC@onizuka.tb.9715.org>
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On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:58:42AM +0200, Torsten Blum wrote:
>
> Everybody has different needs for security. There are more than enough
> users who'll never need tcpwrapper because
> - they only have a small set of "services" running on these boxes
> (for example www server, dns, sendmail etc)
> - we have users who really don't care about security (sad but true).
> They never care to configure hosts.{allow,deny} or even check their
> logfiles
> - Machines without connections "external" connection
> and many many more
ok, agreed.
> Andreas, have you _ever_ configured tcpd ? tcpd is not a standalone daemon.
> To activate it, you have to modify inetd.conf.
Yes I'm using it in the company for our secured FreeBSD internet
gateway ...
> Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a "more" secure system, but you don't get
> this out of the box. You _always_ have to configure something.
Ok, agreed. Peace man ;-)
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