On Monday 03 December 2001 09:24 am, Kathy Montgomery wrote: > My installation of xinetd (from the downloadable CD images) came with tcpd > capabilities already compiled in, so that I did not have to add the tcpd > information to my xinetd.conf file. > > When I make changes to the host.allow and host.deny files, xinetd restricts > access accordingly, without any reference to tcpd in the configuration > file. Have you tried this? (I welcome corrections if I'm off base...) > > - Kathy > > tek1 wrote: > > in my "linux: the complete reference" book on p.559, it explain that to > > use tcp wrappers (for monitoring connections and controlling access), we > > need to put tcpd in front of the service name in the inetd.conf file. > > > > however, mandrake uses the xinetd.conf file, which doesn't list the > > services. instead, it "includes" the dir /etc/xinetd.d/, which are the > > equivalent of listing the services in xinetd.conf. but how do we wrap > > the services in /etc/xinetd.d/ in a tcpd wrapper? > > > > thanks...
You are correct. There is no need for a lot of what used to be recommended. When we still used inetd, the tcp_wrappers were installed and configured by default and it was ard to get rid of them even then, but that is no longer necessary with xinetd. Civileme
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