Re: Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

[John Jasen <jjasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/20/2014 06:23 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Not sure there's a one-to-one mapping or even a conceptual overlap in
> what tcpwrappers and iptables do.   Applications can be configured to
> use different ports than someone setting up iptables might expect -
> and how would you handle portmapper?
> 

As another case, read some of the extended use cases for vsftpd. They
require tcpd to pass an environmental variable telling vsftpd which
configuration file to use.


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