Tcp wrappers how to

Robert Brent P. Lipke brent at cdo.linux.org.ph
Fri Mar 17 20:52:10 UTC 2006


On 3/18/06, Bliss, Aaron <ABliss at preferredcare.org> wrote:
> I'm attempting to limit connections to the hp data protector client
> service using tcp wrappers, but have not had much luck (let me say that
> I've never used tcp wrappers before so it's very likely my syntax is
> bad); here's the line I added to /etc/hosts.allow
>
> omni : backup1
>
> And in /etc/hosts.deny
>
> omni : *
>

If I wanted to do something similar to what youre doing, but for ssh,
I'd edit only /etc/hosts.deny with the following information:

sshd: ALL EXCEPT backup1

hth

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