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From: alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tcp_wrappers won't work!
Date: 19 Oct 1996 13:58:40 GMT
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In article <54a3h1$o12@news.ox.ac.uk>,
Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk> wrote:
:alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) writes:
:
:>If you built tcp_wrapper via the ports system, then the hosts.* files
:>will be located in /usr/local/etc. Check it out, the patch is plain as
:>day. My guess is that anything that is built with the ports system is
:>intended to be local, hence /usr/local.
:
:Well, every system I use tcp_wrappers on has the deny/allow in /etc.
:It is common to nfs mount /usr/local on many systems and putting such
:a critical system security file at the mercy of nfs mount attacks is
:not sensible IMHO.
Well every SunOS box I've ever used has ping in /etc. It doesn't really
matter, the fact remains that no two OS's are set up exactly the same,
and there's no reason one should expect them to be.
:The packaged version needs a README or something as the man pages are
:still pointing to /etc.
I can definitely agree with you on this one. Chuck, are you listening?
:Don't want to be picky about this - just wanted to alert people who
:may edit the /etc files and go home without checking.
I can understand. However, let me just go on to say that as an
administrator of a system you should probably look through the Makefile
just to be on the safe side and see exactly what's going on. We can't
make things *too* easy on ourselves now, can we?
--Jerry
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