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From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ftpd access control by IP
Date: 13 Sep 1996 20:04:23 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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On 12 Sep 1996 21:44:01 +0200, S Marquard wrote:
>Neil Fowler Wright <neil@corpex.com> writes:
>
>>Can you get an ftpd process to control access to the machine by
>>source IP number without using a firewall?
>
>wu-ftpd has this functionality. I think it's in the ports or packages
>collection.

Or a more general solution is to use tcpd (tcp_wrapper7.X), which can be
found on most ftp sites with security software.  With tcpd, you can control
tcp connections through inetd and provide wrappers with libwrap.a for a few
others.

-Clint