Re: more on hosts.deny

[Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>]

Andrew Ivanov <c680789@showme.missouri.edu> writes:

> Ok, this is how I wrote the files:
> hosts.deny
> ALL: ALL
> 
> hosts.allow
> ALL: localhost
> 
> or 
> hosts.allow
> ALL: localhost :ALL
> 
> If I'm right, this should block any attempts to telnet/ftp/finger etc.
> from the outside of 127.0.0.1
> But I still can login from a different IP, and my syslog contains this:
> Jan 11 14:25:36 Scorpio in.telnetd[20731]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line
> 0: missing newline or line too long
> Jan 11 14:25:36 Scorpio in.telnetd[20731]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line
> 0: missing newline or line too long
> 
> when I telnet to my machine.
> What am I doing wrong this time?

I'd guess that you are using emacs; vi will always terminate a line
for you.  Try going to the end of the line and hitting return before
saving the file.

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Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org