[plug] telnet access in Red Hat 6.1

David Griffiths griffith at environ.wa.gov.au
Wed Apr 18 15:19:59 WST 2001


>On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 02:08:23PM +0800, Simon Scott wrote:
>> 	Is it portmap or inetd which uses hosts.allow and hosts.deny??????
>
>Neither?  It's tcpd and libwrap.
>

and in a sense, both, where tcp wrappers  are being used for inetd
services, since changes to hosts.allow and hosts.deny will affect the
wrapped inetd services and portmap (and any other app built against the tcp
wrappers libs).



Dave G.





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