Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:16:36 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP_wrapers Message-ID: <20020819121636.GA51236@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20020819081448.N98690-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> References: <3D609ECE.9609.498F29E@localhost> <20020819081448.N98690-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:16:15AM -0400, Dru wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, bill wrote: > > > I am just in the process of building my first freeBSD box. I looked in the ports > > under security and can't find plain TCP wrappers. Did I miss it or is it not > > available as a package download ? > > Hi Bill, > > TCP Wrappers has been built into the system for some time now. Edit > "/etc/hosts.allow" to your needs; don't bother with "/etc/hosts.deny" as > it is deprecated. "man hosts_options" if you need help with the format. You also need to ensure that inetd is started with the flags -wW to enable TCP Wrappers support. I believe this is the default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf anyway, but just double check. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020819121636.GA51236>