From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jul 1 10:42:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pop.intrafish.no (pop.intrafish.no [195.204.144.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA34A14CAA for ; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ros@intrafish.no) Received: (qmail 29501 invoked from network); 1 Jul 1999 17:58:16 -0000 Received: from wkst3.intrafish.no (HELO wkst3) (195.204.144.39) by pop.intrafish.no with SMTP; 1 Jul 1999 17:58:16 -0000 Message-ID: <00c801bec3e9$0cbd9560$2790ccc3@intrafish.no> From: "Roger Rabbit" To: "David Pick" Cc: References: Subject: SV: tcp wrappers Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:42:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thnx a lot for the help guys. I got my hands on the tcpserver source and compiled it (I only had the = precompiled package and it was a.out) ... works like a dream so tcp wrappers are of no interest anymore. :) -Roger ----- Original Message -----=20 From: David Pick To: Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 7:32 PM Subject: Re: tcp wrappers=20 >=20 > > > But I can't see tcpd anywhere, only tcpdcheck and so on. Why is = this ? > >=20 > > If you look at the inetd manpage, you'll see that it supports = builtin > > wrapping. You don't need tcpd. >=20 > To be explicit - inetd is linked with the libwrap library so it's > unnecessary to activate a separate program with the extra overheads > that involves. >=20 > > > What if I want to set up different access rules based on the = protocol in =3D > > > use, not the program ? > >=20 > > That's a limitation of hosts.allow. Short of creating a copy of the > > daemon binary with a new name, you can't do what you want to with = inetd > > and TCP Wrappers. >=20 > Actually, a separate copy is not necessary; a hard (or soft) link > is sufficient to make the wrappers see a new name so different rules > can be used. >=20 > --=20 > David Pick >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message