Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpd, inetd, and hosts.[allow|deny] Message-ID: <19990728133511.F20777@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <19990728202954.A75107@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>; from Yiorgos Adamopoulos on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:29:54PM %2B0300 References: <19990728200259.A60026@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907281307570.2887-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> <19990728202954.A75107@dblab.ece.ntua.gr>
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Yiorgos Adamopoulos <adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> probably said:
> Now this is where I disagree. The default /etc/hosts.allow allows
> every connection. Which is OK, since if you cut-n-paste your old
> inetd.conf tcpd wrapped lines, inetd will execute tcpd, who (tcpd)
> will check /usr/local/etc/hosts.{allow,deny} which will do what the
> administrator expects.
Not always true.
tcpd is linked dynamicly with libwrap, it depends which libwrap.so
is first in the linker's search.
When I went to 3.2 my older tcpd started using /etc/hosts.*.
P.
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