Re: Bringing back tcp wrappers

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Libwrap has never been part of OpenSSH (or if it was it was removed when OpenBSD team forked the original SSHv1 source back in 1999).  This has always been a 3rd party patchset.

Ben

Saint Michael wrote on 6/23/21 12:31 PM:
any external app can be down at any time, while openssh remains active and
exposed, BUT libwrap is baked into openssh, so the protection will hold.
Libwrap is the last line of defense. Why remove it?

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 1:01 PM Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/23/21 5:54 PM, Saint Michael wrote:
I compiled the latest version, 8.1, inside Centos 7.9, and
[snip]

What use-case would there be there for tcpwrappers that cannot be better
solved with a packet filter?  In the case of CentOS 7 you have nftables
and iptables.

/Lars

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