Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 20:16:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major bogon in tcp_wrappers port. Message-ID: <199708051816.UAA15581@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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<asbestos> _*PRETTY_PLEASE*_ cant we bring this into the "core" FreeBSD? With all the squeling about security, IMHO it is silly not to. </asbestos> M "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > Yes, I read the man pages for tcpd and for hosts_access(5) and pretty > much everything I could get my hands on, and no matter what I put in > for my /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files, it *always* allowed > the connection in. After tearing out a little hair, it finally > occurred to me that maybe this had been "localized" as well and that > the files actually lived in /usr/local/etc. Bingo. That was it. > > The bogon is that this information was never patched into the man > pages, so the new tcp_wrappers user is given completely bogus > information and sent to the wrong place. > > As per proper ports etiquette, I'm sending this to the maintainer but > will also be happy to fix this myself if Torsten is unable to do so > for some reason. I was actually pretty shocked that this has been > misdocumented for so long. :-) > > Jordan -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org
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