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On 12/05/2006, at 9:51 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:

> is there anyway to restrict this daemon to listen only on 127.0.0.1 
> local host?

poppassd is called by inetd so thats where you need to look. The 
easiest method would probably be to use tcp wrappers. See the inetd man 
page for details but basically run inetd with -w and edit 
/etc/hosts.allow.

I'd recommend you take a look at the poppwd port as well.

Andrew