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

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:18:09PM +0000, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> 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?

No, ssh links against libwrap0, and so handles /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}
itself.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]