Eric Mosley wrote:
> If I have All: All in my hosts.deny and nothing in my hosts.allow, does
> that mean that nothing can connect to the machine, including web, ftp,
> but also even a "telnet localhost"?
hosts.{allow,deny} only apply to programs which use them, e.g. those
which are linked against libwrap, or are invoked via tcpd.
Standalone daemons (e.g. Apache, sendmail) don't generally use them.
> What do I have to put in hosts.allow to just allow ftp and www?
wu.ftpd: ALL
This assumes that your ftpd is called wu.ftpd. Basically, the name has
to match whatever is in inetd.conf.
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