/etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny question

["Benedict Verheyen" <linux4bene@pandora.be>]

Hi,

i have some problems setting up ssh connection (not the scope of this email though not yet :-) and i came across the /etc/hosts.allow & /etc/hosts.deny files.

Now, i saw in some documents about ssh that they add "sshd: all" to the
/etc/hosts.allow file. Am i correct that these 2 files are only used when you have inetd enabled and that they otherwise serve no purpose?
So if i don't have inetd running, these 2 files are useless?

I have disabled inetd on my server machine and run all programs as daemons.

Thanks