From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 5:17:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C399E37B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (host217-39-91-62.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.39.91.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13A143E65 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17glSW-000DNq-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:16:36 +0100 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:16:36 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP_wrapers Message-ID: <20020819121636.GA51236@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D609ECE.9609.498F29E@localhost> <20020819081448.N98690-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020819081448.N98690-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Scanner: exiscan *17glSW-000DNq-00*xIcO.c8uDdA* (SlightlyStrange.org, Using NOD32 http://www.nod32.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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