From owner-cvs-all Sat Mar 13 9:33: 5 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu (SICILY.ODYSSEY.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.185.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9E0B14D02; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:33:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rvb+@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu) To: Mark Murray Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , James FitzGibbon , Dima Ruban , James FitzGibbon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/portmap_tcpd - Imported sources References: <4648.921188347@zippy.cdrom.com> <199903120626.IAA14050@greenpeace.grondar.za> From: "Robert V. Baron" Date: 13 Mar 1999 12:31:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: Mark Murray's message of "Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:26:33 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Another hearty thank you, thank you. wrapers are long overdue. Also please make sure the man pages for hosts.allow, hosts.deny, hosts_access, ... appear. And it would be neat to have a skelton/sample /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny in the tree. Mark Murray writes: > "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > It's time for libwrap (and the rest of tcp_wrappers) to enter the darn > > tree. People call for this about once a year and everyone goes > > "harrumph, yes, I guess it should be" and then we go on to other > > discussions again. Those looking for "prior art" need also look no > > further than just about every one of our sister and brother free OSes > > who have long since adopted tcp wrappers as part of their out-of-box > > security. > > I'll do it this weekend. Instead of tcpd, I'll pinch NetBSD's inetd > (well, the relevant piece thereof) which gives identical functionality > and bring in libwrap for it and the rest of the world. > > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message