From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 13 11:45:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from s2.smtp.oleane.net (s2.smtp.oleane.net [195.25.12.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470021572F for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 11:45:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaco@titine.fr.eu.org) Received: from titine.fr.eu.org (dyn-1-1-017.Tls.dialup.oleane.fr [194.2.21.17]) by s2.smtp.oleane.net with ESMTP id UAA55233; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:45:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by titine.fr.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 699E015596; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:40:30 +0200 (CEST) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "talk" appears broken! References: <18493.937242926@axl.noc.iafrica.com> From: Eric Jacoboni Date: 13 Sep 1999 20:40:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:15:26 +0200" Message-ID: <87k8pu3baa.fsf@titine.fr.eu.org> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > > At least, rename it /etc/hosts.allow.orig in order to disable tcp > > wrappers... try your services, then write your own /etc/hosts.allow. > > Oi! You're spreading misinformation here. :-( > > Removing hosts.allow doesn't disable TCP Wrappers. Rather, for wrapped > applications, it causes _all_ wrapped services to be denied. As far as hosts_access(5) is up to date : "A non-existing access control file is treated as if it were an empty file. Thus, access control can be turned off by providing no access control files." That's exactly what i wanted to say... sorry if i was unclear. -- --------------------------------------------------------- Éric Jacoboni « No sport, cigars! » (W. Churchill) --------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message