I wasn't aware you were using xinetd.
I am unclear on how xinetd makes use of tcpwrappers, actually, or if one
would need to install tcpd and add /usr/sbin/tcpd to the "server" line.
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ed Lazor wrote:
> I have a question about this part and how it applies to RedHat 7.0.
>
> As you probably know, RedHat 7.0 moves entries from the inetd.conf file
> to individual files in the /etc/xinetd.d directory. I checked the file
> /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and found this:
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # default: on
> # description: The telnet server serves telnet sessions; it uses \
> # unencrypted username/password pairs for authentication.
> service telnet
> {
> disable = no
> flags = REUSE
> socket_type = stream
> wait = no
> user = root
> server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> log_on_failure += USERID
> }
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm using hosts.allow and hosts.deny, but I don't see anything about
> /usr/sbin/tcpd in there. Should it be?
>
> -Ed
>
>
> >The first of these lines would let specific machine IPs in to the telnet
> >daemon...the second line would be a network address/network mask...this
> >is useful for allowing whole netblocks in.
> >
> >Check your /etc/inetd.conf file. Any entries that look like:
> >
> >telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> >
> >should be using TCP Wrappers. The "/usr/sbin/tcpd" before the actual
> >daemon gives that away...
>
>
>
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