begin Armand Welsh quotation:
> I don't know the specifics on why it's started this way, but I do know that
> my ssh daemon reads the hosts.allow, and hosts.deny files, and bases it's
> security off of these. So that may be the reason.
Nope. That goal can be accomplished by compiling sshd with libwrap, and
not running it under inetd.
I can't think of any situation where it's beneficial to run sshd under
inetd, except for extreme RAM shortages (which suggest an obvious and
different cure). I'd say somebody made an error.
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Cheers, "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse."
Rick Moen -- D. Gale
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