Hi Dave, > I want to use tcp_wrapper to provide an extra layer of control to those > services which I allow, but I'm not sure how to go about doing this. There's two ways. Well, not really two ways, you'll see what I mean. - It is no longer necessary to use TCP wrappers with the tcpd daemon. All of the network daemons installed with Mandrake 8 come with tcp wrappers support compiled in (using the tender services of libwrap I believe). This means that these daemons will check hosts.allow and hosts.deny without intervention of tcpd. A caveat: I am not a Mandrake employee and currently do not have access to a Mandrake 8 machine to check (a simple ldd of in.telnetd should confirm or deny), so I'm not 100% sure the above is correct, and in a security related matter less than 100% is not always enough :). - For those with fond memories of tcpd, you can still call it from xinetd as such: server = /usr/sbin/tcpd server_args = in.telnetd Another caveat: I'm not sure of the syntax of the above, and have as mentioned no access to a LM8 machine, but I seem to remember the above being the correct options. Anyway, man xinetd should provide more help. Hope this helps you. CU Bart -- ---------------------------------------------- Bart Vetters | [EMAIL PROTECTED] KMI - IRM | Tel.: +32.2.373.04.77 Ringlaan 3 | Fax.: +32.2.373.06.57 1180 Brussel | Pubkey ID: C182DF19 ----------------------------------------------
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