[TriLUG] Hostsallow, hostsdeny question

Alan Porter porter at trilug.org
Wed Mar 19 10:35:42 EDT 2008


> Note that hosts.allow and hosts.deny are only used by programs that
> are linked with libwrap (xinetd is, lots of other server apps are).

To find out if a particular app uses libwrap, use "ldd".

$ ldd /usr/sbin/sshd

And look for "libwrap".


Alan




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