Subject: Re: tcpwrappers & inetd.conf
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 15:46:44 EST
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Steve Devine wrote:
> Thanks for your quick response. Am I to leave the entry in services file? This
> seems less than usefull without inetd calling afpd. I have compiled netatalk
> with tcp wrappers support .. in the Makefile there is this reference to
> tcpwrappers :
> # Location of the tcp wrapper library and include files. Comment this out
> # if you don't want tcp wrapper support. having tcp wrapper support is
> # highly recommended.
> TCPWRAPDIR=/usr/local/tcp_wrappers
> I assume this to mean the directory that contains the source code. I have
> tried this sixteen ways to sunday an I have yet to be able to control access
> via hosts.allow
> BTW:
> netatalk seems happy to compile regardless of what I put under the tcpwrapdir=
You should leave the entries in /etc/services, although I'm not sure what
they are used for. You can check to see if afpd is linked against the
tcp-wrappers libraries by typing "ldd afpd". Check that it says "libwrap"
in the list.
Andy
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