Re: TCPd and Xinetd....
RB said on Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:15:21PM -0400:
> I'm planning on switching a server of mine from inetd and
> tcpd over to xinetd. I'm wondering if there is any benefit to
> using tcpd with xinetd?
> It looks to me that xinetd combines the features of inetd and
> tcpd into one process.
This seems to be true; anyway, on the xinetd.org site there is an
article that says
xinetd provides access control capabilities similar to the
ones provided by tcp_wrapper. However, its capabilities
extend much further [..]
xinetd can control access to the various services managed by it.
So in that sense, xinetd really does obsolete tcp wrappers. The
Debian version is linked with libwrap, so you can also control
access to xinetd *itself*. But I don't know if there is much point
in this...
Regards, Jan
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