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Old 10-28-2006, 12:31 AM   #1
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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.
 
Old 10-28-2006, 01:59 AM   #2
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many daemons can be compiled against tcpwrappers. xinetd can, but so can many others, ssh, postfix etc...
 
Old 10-28-2006, 08:14 PM   #3
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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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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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