sshd uses hosts.allow

hampel · 07-04-2003, 05:23 AM

Hi!

AFAIK ONLY the TCP - Wrapper uses hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
But why does the sshd use these files while inetd and tcpd are NOT running!?
I started sshd per hand: /usr/sbin/sshd

If i want to get connected with the sshd - server it seems i will have to modify hosts.allow before to work!

regards,
hampel

Capt_Caveman · 07-04-2003, 09:14 AM

IIRC, I think the default sshd installation is compiled with libwrap support built in. I would imagine that you could compile sshd from source without the libwrap support. You might want to take a look at these for more info:

http://www.snailbook.com/faq/libwrap.auto.html
http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/ssh-faq-5.html

hampel · 07-08-2003, 06:25 AM

Thanks!