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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2000 11:01:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sshd and tcp-wrappers
Message-ID:  <14587.10080.867467.456592@onceler.kcilink.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000417090605.A2443@osaka.louisville.edu>
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>>>>> "KS" == Keith Stevenson <k.stevenson@louisville.edu> writes:

KS> sshd(8) provides its own internal facility for allowing or denying
KS> hosts based upon IP address.  Using both the internal facility and
KS> TCP Wrappers would incur additional work on accepted connections.
KS> Personally, I use TCP Wrappers on SSH and disable the internal
KS> facility.

The internal facility *is* TCP wrappers.  It just doesn't need the
tcpd program, which only exists to wrap programs that don't know how
to do it themselves.

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