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Re: ssh: "connection refused by tcp wrapper"



On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:41:56 -0400
Soren Andersen <somian@adelphia.net> wrote:

> The thing that probably derailed my own analysis is that I probably
> vaguely thought I recalled that sshd provides its own security /
> authentication so is not generally run under inetd, so I THOUGHT it
> wouldn't have anything to do with the hosts.{allow,deny} files. Clearly
> there's something I don't understand yet about all that.

If sshd is run as a daemon it doesn't look at hosts.{allow,deny}. If you run
it as an inetd service, it does.

Kevin



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