Re: more on hosts.deny

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Andrew Ivanov wrote:

> 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?
> TIA, 

Change it to:

ALL: localhost

in hosts.allow

then do not forget to:

killall -HUP inetd



George Bonser

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