Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:57:27 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Khalil Haddad <khaddad@wanadoo.fr> Cc: Fernando Schapachnik <fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP - block outer connections Message-ID: <20010417095727.A4070@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <001c01c0c69e$d44889f0$0200a8c0@khalil>; from khaddad@wanadoo.fr on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:58:23PM %2B0200 References: <200104161651.NAA26855@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar> <001c01c0c69e$d44889f0$0200a8c0@khalil>
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 07:58:23PM +0200, Khalil Haddad wrote: > thx for your answer > i changed my hosts.allow and made a rule to deny all and to allow only the > ip of the machine i want to ftp in > > but how do you make the changes to take effect ? i did not find this in the > man pages (other than reboot) The hosts.allow and hosts.deny files are examined upon every invocation of the TCP wrapper; that is, upon every incoming FTP connection. You do not need to do anything more after changing the hosts.* files. G'luck, Peter -- If wishes were fishes, the antecedent of this conditional would be true. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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