From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 28 10:30:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (ulysses.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD4D14D70 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from george@dblab.ece.ntua.gr) Received: from dblab.ece.ntua.gr (ithaca.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.12.1]) by ulysses.noc.ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA26457; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:29:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hawk.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr (hawk.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.12.8]) by dblab.ece.ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA34296; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:29:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from george@localhost) by hawk.dbnet.ece.ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.2) id UAA80330; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:29:55 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 20:29:54 +0300 From: Yiorgos Adamopoulos To: Seth Cc: Yiorgos Adamopoulos , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcpd, inetd, and hosts.[allow|deny] Message-ID: <19990728202954.A75107@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: adamo@dblab.ece.ntua.gr References: <19990728200259.A60026@dblab.ece.ntua.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Seth on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 01:17:26PM -0400 X-Organization: Knowledge and Data Base Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-URL: http://home.eu.org/~adamo X-Alt-Email: adamo@ieee.org X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-436 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-442 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 01:17:26PM -0400, Seth wrote: > administrative point of view. The access files must be moved from > /usr/local/etc to /etc in order for a default wrapped inetd config to > access them. Any administrator who relied on wrapping and who made the Now this is where I disagree. The default /etc/hosts.allow allows every connection. Which is OK, since if you cut-n-paste your old inetd.conf tcpd wrapped lines, inetd will execute tcpd, who (tcpd) will check /usr/local/etc/hosts.{allow,deny} which will do what the administrator expects. -- ieee.org!adamo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message