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From: "Chris O'Regan" <chris.oregan@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-security@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] TCP Wrapper Documentation
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:51:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3d4c29a0901092151h269c629l92953a9da2585ee3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1dd97640901092051i52aa0e3dk97652ad9a1febce5@mail.gmail.com>

Search for "tcp wrappers howto" on Google. Yes, this must be
maintained manually. I recommend to do away with /etc/host.deny and
have "ALL :ALL@ALL :deny" as the last line of /etc/hosts.allow.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:51 PM, James Stull <rivitir@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a gentoo desktop profile system and I would like to use tcp wrappers
> to secure certain services like ssh. I followed the documentation I could
> find from the security guide to install the ebuild but I don't have the
> /etc/hosts.allow or hosts.deny. Do I have to manually create these? Is their
> any other documentation available that I can use to help me install and
> configure it properly?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-10  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10  4:51 [gentoo-security] TCP Wrapper Documentation James Stull
2009-01-10  5:51 ` Chris O'Regan [this message]
2009-01-12 17:50   ` brant williams
2009-01-13  0:32     ` James Stull
2009-01-14 21:17       ` Matt Drew

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