[CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

[Keith Keller]

On 2014-04-21, Always Learning <centos at u62.u22.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 19:27 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
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>> The problem here wouldn't be so much building it from source. You'd have
>> to rebuild everything that would make use of it as well. For example
>> sshd is linked against it. ->
>
> Why ?
>
> If the guy wants to use TCP Wrappers with one other specific
> application / bit of system software (= IP Tables) and wishes to build
> it from source, why should he have to worry about SSHD compatibility if
> he does not want to use TCP Wrappers with SSHD ?

That's not how I read Jim's response.  I read it as, if you wished to
use tcpwrappers with sshd, you'd have to rebuild sshd.  If you only have
one app you need to rebuild that's not so bad, but if you have a half
dozen it could be annoying.

--keith

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