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10-28-2006, 12:31 AM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: centos 4.4
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tcpwrappers & xinted?
i keep on seeing references in security docs to tcpwrappers but is it tied to xinetd? in other words, if you don't have xinted, you can't used tcpwrappers? I removed xinetd from my system since i was not using any of the services it was controlling. this seems to be a best practice, but other docs make mention of tcpwrappers.
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10-28-2006, 01:59 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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many daemons can be compiled against tcpwrappers. xinetd can, but so can many others, ssh, postfix etc...
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10-28-2006, 08:14 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: centos 4.4
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so tcpwrappers is not dependent on xinetd? i'll need to do some more digging. DenyHosts is using /etc/hosts.deny
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10-30-2006, 05:10 AM
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Registered: May 2001
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No, it's the other way around. As Acid already said apps can be compiled against tcp_wrappers (libwrap), but Xinetd has it's own, independant, builtin implementation of tcp_wrappers so it doesn't need /etc/hosts.{deny,allow}
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