tcpwrappers don't seem to be working for cvspserver. on host satan (64.164.47.8), i have the following wrappers:
# ########## hosts.allow ######################### ALL: localhost ALL: 192.168.0.1 # mephisto ALL: 192.168.0.2 # satan ALL: 192.168.0.3 # navalle ALL: 192.168.0.4 # lucifer # cvspserver: 169.237.43.86 # belial.ucdavis.edu cvspserver: 130.88.22.5 # John Levon (mpg cvs) # ########## hosts.deny ######################### portmap: ALL lockd: ALL mountd: ALL rquotad: ALL statd: ALL cvspserver: ALL yet belial.ucdavis.edu can access the pserver just fine: belial% cvs -d ':pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvs' login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/usr/local/cvs CVS password: belial% i ran inetd in debug mode, and it didn't give too much information. the "someone" in the logs is belial.ucdavis.edu, whom i commented out of hosts.allow, and who shouldn't be allowed since i have "cvspserver: ALL" in hosts.deny. satan# inetd -d ADD : time proto=tcp, wait.max=0.40, user.group=root.(null) builtin=804d094 server=internal ADD : time proto=udp, wait.max=0.40, user.group=root.(null) builtin=804d0a4 server=internal ADD : ftp proto=tcp, wait.max=0.40, user.group=root.(null) builtin=0 server=/usr/sbin/tcpd ADD : smtp proto=tcp, wait.max=0.40, user.group=mail.(null) builtin=0 server=/usr/sbin/tcpd ADD : finger proto=tcp, wait.max=0.40, user.group=nobody.(null) builtin=0 server=/usr/sbin/tcpd ADD : cvspserver proto=tcp, wait.max=0.40, user.group=root.(null) builtin=0 server=/usr/sbin/tcpd someone wants cvspserver accept, ctrl 3 2771 execl /usr/sbin/tcpd 2771 reaped, status 0 it's very important to me to be able to restrict pserver to only one or two collaborators. i don't want anyone else accessing it. does anyone have any ideas why tcpwrappers seem to be failing? thanks, pete -- PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]