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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:14:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        Rodrigo Campos <camposr@MATRIX.COM.BR>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wrapping sshd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151413580.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151624020.11873-100000@speed.matrix.com.br>

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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Campos wrote:

> In the /etc/hosts.allow file there's a comment saying that "is not
> normally a good idea" to wrapp sshd(8), I'm just asking myself why
> wouldn't be a good idea to do it since it seems to me that openssh has
> options to restrict access to it except compiling it with LIBWRAP support.

	This is really more of a -questions question, for future
reference. To answer, I have always wondered about that warning myself,
but I've never let it slow me down. :) I have never not wrapped sshd, and
it's always worked for me.

Doug
-- 
  "While the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it seems, 
   it would be easier sometimes to change the past"

       - Jackson Browne, "Fountain of Sorrow"



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