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TCP Wrappers is in slackware by default.  It says so in the slack book and tells you how to configure it and stuff. So it is there.


On 12/10/2002 Jude DaShiell ran to their keyboard and tapped out this message:


>By that standard, slackware 8.0.0 seems to fail.  Unless tcp_wrappers is
>hidden and protecting itself from update.
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>On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, L. C. Robinson wrote:
>
>> Tcp_wrappers is a standard binary part of Red Hat, and
>> any other decent distribution.  It is essential to
>> configure it after a new installation, for any decent
>> security, of course, along with the other security
>> configuration basics, such as installing all security
>> updates.  If one neglects those things, good security
>> tools in linux are worthless, and you WILL get hacked
>> (but maybe not quite so quickly as with a certain
>> dominant vendor's junk software).
>>
>> LCR
>>
>> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>
>> > Has anyone managed to get tcp_wrappers_7.6 built and
>> > operating under any version oor any brand of linux
>> > yet?  If you don't know what that i
>> > ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html
>> > should give you background info.
>>
>> --
>> L. C. Robinson
>> reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid
>>
>> People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and
>> instability instead.  This is award winning "innovation".  Find
>> out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see
>> "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html
>>
>>
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