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From: hamilton@cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Disabling Incoming telnet
Date: 20 Jun 94 11:06:21 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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thomasbe@uio.no (Thomas Berge) writes:

>Jim Hribnak (hribnak@nucleus.com) wrote:
>> How do I restrict WHO or WHAT system can telnet into our system?   Is 
>> there some file I can create with the people(system) we want in, and the 
>> others are refused?  

>> Please get back to me ASAP! 

>Please post the answer as a follow-up in this newsgroup! (Or by mail to me
>as well, as I want to restrict my NetBSD-system in a similar way.) 

tcp_wrapper is what you're after.  It's available via ftp from
ftp.win.tue.nl in something that sounds like /pub/security.

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+    Jon Hamilton  hamilton@cs.iastate.edu | jdh@iastate.edu    +
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