Restrict access to a particular server.

Aaron Bliss abliss at brockport.edu
Tue Oct 21 16:10:21 UTC 2008


Russ,
How could this not be true if the daemon isn't compiled with libwrap. One
example that comes to mind right off the top of my head is netbackup.  I'm
sure there are many others.  

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 11:51 AM
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Subject: Restrict access to a particular server.

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Aaron Bliss wrote:

> Speaking of RedHat (and possibly other nix's), the trouble with tcp
> wrappers, is that only services governed by xineted have tcp wrappers
rules
> applied to them, whereas iptables rules apply to any daemon running on the
> box.

not true of course ---  and it is Red Hat

]$ ldd /usr/sbin/sshd | grep wrap
         libwrap.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libwrap.so.0

-- Russ herrold

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