Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 20:16:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980911195617.10501D-100000@roble.com> In-Reply-To: <20262.905499048@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Because you have your files in the wrong place - if you read the man page
> for tcpd, you'll see that the permission files live in /usr/local/etc/hosts.*
The 2.2.6 man pages incorrectly identify /etc as the location of
hosts.{allow,deny}. FWIW, /etc is the default location on every
*other* Unix operating system. When I first ran into this bug (back
around 1.0.5) we had to `strings tcpd` to find where the access files
were expected to be. This is one of the many FreeBSD ports that (IMHO)
offer no advantages over the original package.
> Which isn't started from inetd.conf. It's started from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
> when the system boots; nothing rogue about it.
The recommended sshd startup method used to be /etc/rc*(/*), probably
for historical reasons. It may still be a good idea on slow CPUs,
where it can take a while to generate a session key, or where
inetd.conf isn't running, however, in my experience, sshd is much more
reliably run from inetd.
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
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