Re: [RFR] templates://tcp-wrappers/{tcpd.templates}
On (31/03/07 19:52), Christian Perrier wrote:
> Please find, for review, the debconf templates and the debian/control
> file of tcp-wrappers.
>
> Template: tcpd/paranoid-mode
> Type: boolean
> Default: false
> _description: Use paranoid settings in hosts.allow and hosts.access?
> New /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files for the TCP wrappers
> daemon (tcpd) will be created as they do not exist yet.
Is it intended to have hosts.access in the short description and
hosts.deny in the long?
> Description: Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities
> Wietse Venema's network logger, also known as TCPD or LOG_TCP.
> .
> These programs log the client host name of incoming telnet,
> ftp, rsh, rlogin, finger etc. requests. Security options are:
> access control per host, domain and/or service; detection of
> host name spoofing or host address spoofing; booby traps to
> implement an early-warning system.
>
This doesn't seem write to me. It is called a logger, but then says that
it has security options so it seems to do more than that.
Also the list with semicolons is unusual, but I see why it is done. It
can probably be rewritten to avoid this. I will send a diff if I come up
with something satisfactory.
Thanks,
James
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