From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 29 1: 7:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A8137C0C1 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:07:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12aERb-0004xE-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:07:19 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: David Babler Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: hosts.allow for inetd internals? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:10:05 PST." Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:07:19 +0200 Message-ID: <19047.954320839@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:10:05 PST, David Babler wrote: > Quick question... couldn't find an answer in the archives. Is it possible > to selectively apply host.allow restrictions on processes (specifically > auth/ident) that are internal to inetd, and if so, what process name > applies? Yes. The difference is that you use the canonical service name (instead of the daemon name) in /etc/hosts.allow. > When I changed the inetd.conf entry to run a > "real" internal identd, the auth/ident requests all got denied and > logged. do I have to go back to the external daemon in order to be able to > allow it? To allow the use of the internal ``auth'' service from anywhere, add this line: auth: ALL : ALLOW Ciao, Sheldon. PS: This is covered in the inetd(8) manual page. I'm not telling you off; I just don't want you to think that this is arcane wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message