Re: tcpd with xinetd
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a few years ago i patches tcpd to cooperate with xinetd; the patch is on
> ftp://ftp.tuke.sk/pub/unix/security/tcpd_xinetd.patch
>
> The problem is xinetd doesn't allow to define argv[0] thus tcpd would call
> itself; this patch increases argv if argv[0] eauqls to "tcpd", "in.tcpd"
> or "in.frontd" (defined in Makefile).
>
> This allows to join advantages of xinetd and tcpd; better checks etc.
> I'd like to make patch to xinetd which would join it more close - xinetd
> could call hosts_access() from libwrap; I've heard some FreeBSD developers
> are doing that.
>
> Could anyone comment this ? OR probably make new xinetd package with this
> patch included ?
Why would you want to do this? Xinetd already has access control based on
ip address, host name and time of day. What features of tcpd are you
missing in xinetd?
Remco
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