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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:13:38 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        David Chong <thiamwah@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TCP Wrappers and Inetd 
Message-ID:  <96932.996056018@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:58:45 MST." <20010725045845.40608.qmail@web10007.mail.yahoo.com> 

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:58:45 MST, David Chong wrote:

> My question is: does it just cover services in inetd
> (just like tcp wrappers for other unixes) or does it
> cover more than that in FreeBSD? Like standalone
> daemons ie. sendmail, httpd, sshd.

Any service launched by inetd will be subject to TCP Wrappers if inetd
is started with the -w option (default installation).

You will need to check the documentation of any other services.  A quick
check is to use the ldd utility to check whether the binaries for the
services are linked against lwrap.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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