Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > Are you already preparing for having no arguments? I pointed out that your style of communication makes you look bad so that next time when you want something you can try to avoid risking that, because looking bad is sufficient for lots of people to ignore you, regardless of technical merits. > > The rationale is that firewall rules can replace libwrap > > Show me this as an example of your firewall skills and replace this > hosts.allow entry: > > sshd: .... : spawn (echo -e "%u@%h[%a] on `/bin/date`" to %d connected me | > /bin/mail -s "hosts.allow entry XYZ" root) & : ALLOW Linux netfilter has a nice ULOG target which can be used with a program much smaller than libwrap to accomplish the essential functionality above. I used ULOG for the first time somewhere between 7 and 10 years ago so it has been around for a while. But that's of course off-topic for this list, so let's stop here. What's on-topic is that firewalls are indeed able to replace the functionality. //Peter _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
