Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:40:21 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: mark@grondar.za, jkh@time.cdrom.com, torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970805203711.17562h-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708052332.QAA07103@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote: > (Asbestos suit removed) > > * _*PRETTY_PLEASE*_ cant we bring this into the "core" FreeBSD? > * > * With all the squeling about security, IMHO it is silly not to. > > I have no problem with the general principle stated above. I don't > know anything about the actual working of tcp_wrapper, so I'll refrain > from commenting on this specific case. I just installed it and it appears to be basically transparent unless you set up a hosts.allow and/or hosts.deny file---similar to the login.access functionality of login. It does send more stuff about connections to syslog, but with the default syslog.conf, I don't think any of it actually gets recorded. -john
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