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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Does hosts.allow work in FreeBSD 2.1.5?
Date: 16 Oct 1996 13:47:07 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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Message-ID: <542p0r$rui@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
References: <3264a25a.36345548@news.accesscom.net>
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In article <3264a25a.36345548@news.accesscom.net>,
Wisdom <wisdom@wisdom.com> wrote:
> apparently ignores /etc/hosts.allow - does this version support this
> or not? What permissions/ownership is required? Is there a different
> filename convention used? Is there some place where this
> filename/location is specified, enabled or disabled? Inquiring minds
It is not enabled by default. You must install the tcp_wrappers package and
configure manually the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files.
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