Re: "host.deny" : very certain question for this function

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 04/18/05


Date: 18 Apr 2005 21:57:49 GMT

On 2005-04-18, Klaus Lehmann <lehmann_klaus@t-online.de> wrote:
> thanks for your answer, I know this circumstances, but where I can get
> to know this? is tcpwrapper enabled or not?

If it's not obvious then you can confirm it by checking sshd for the
"refuse" symbol, eg:

$ nm sshd |grep refuse
         U refuse

If there's no output then sshd is not compiled with tcpwrappers.

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