Re: tcpwrapper and xinetd

From: dewt (dewt@kc.rr.com)
Date: 08/17/01 

From: dewt <dewt@kc.rr.com>
To: Rajarshi Guha <rajarshi@presidency.com>, focus-linux@securityfocus.org
Subject: Re: tcpwrapper and xinetd
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:52:38 -0500
Message-Id: <01081617523800.02833@monoceros.pretzel.myip.org>

On Thursday 16 August 2001 01:54 pm, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> Hi,
> I had been using inetd previously, but now that I'm on RedHat 7.0 I'm
> using xinetd. Does tcp_wrappers play a role with xinetd? The files
> /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny exist but are they used?
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> TIA,

yes they are read but i beleive the deamon name specified in the files is
different e.g. what was defined as in.telnetd is now just telnet or something
like that

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