Re: [netatalk-admins] a cold wind bloweth

[wesley . craig]

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> If one can run netatalk
> compiled for TCPwrappers without TCPwrappers installed then that's how it
> should be distributed.

Comments from the routine hosts_access(), the main tcp_wrappers routine:

    * If the (daemon, client) pair is matched by an entry in the file
    * /etc/hosts.allow, access is granted. Otherwise, if the (daemon,
    * client) pair is matched by an entry in the file /etc/hosts.deny,
    * access is denied. Otherwise, access is granted. A non-existent
    * access-control file is treated as an empty file.

So, if the admin doesn't have the tcp_wrappers config files on the
machine, tcp_wrappers is effectively turned off.  Voila.

:wes