[Eug-lug] Wrapping for Access Control

[Jacob Meuser]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:30:00PM -0800, Jeff_W wrote:

> Hey Neil - thanks for the concise inetd explaination. I
> don't really care about using inetd so much as having the
> host access control provided by TCP Wrappers; it just seems
> that TCPW is married to inetd (with the exception of sshd
> and maybe sendmail).  I think ultimately I'm going to need
> to rely on a firewall to get real security, however the
> simplicity of TCP Wrappers _is_ very attractive.  I've
> installed the tcpserver stuff but it looks pretty cryptic
> so far; maybe if I just stare at it long enough ....

the checking functionality comes from libwrap.  that's how it's
in other programs, like tcpdchk.

maybe there is a libwrap module for python?

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