Confused about tcp_wrappers and sshd

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, barophobia wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install DenyHosts (http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/)
> and it says I need to have sshd compiled with tcp_wrappers. I did the
> test that the site gives
> (http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ssh_config.html) to determine if
> sshd has been compiled with tcp_wrappers but the test failed so I
> guess it hasn't.
>
> I'm using FC3 with updated RPM's (from the FC3 updated repository).
>
> Here is some (possibly) important output:
>
> [root at hachiroku /etc]# rpm -qa|grep -i wrap
> tcp_wrappers-7.6-37.2
> [root at hachiroku /etc]# rpm -qa|grep -i ssh
> openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.0.2
> openssh-3.9p1-8.0.2
> openssh-server-3.9p1-8.0.2
> [root at hachiroku /etc]#
>
> So obviously I have openssh installed as well as tcp_wrappers... but
> it doesn't seem that they are working in conjuction. How do I get sshd
> to be compiled with tcp_wrappers?
>

What a co-incedence, you must be a slashdot reader cuz I just installed 
that too.
Indeed you have all the nessessary tools.
I decided to run it as a daemon. If you do then be sure to set the 
environment variables properly in the config file.