On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, EXT Pekka Savola wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know if someone has already implemented the following
> tcp_wrappers enhancements wrt. /etc/hosts.allow/deny :
>
> - Support for '?' and '*' wildcards for hostnames
> * .domain.com use is _way_ too inflexible if subdomains haven't been
> named with great care.
>
> - Support for including external files to hosts.allow for specific
> services.
> * This would make hosts.allow easier to maintain
> (esp. wrt. synchronization) if a lot of different services use
> /etc/hosts.allow. This has been done in recent versions of FreeBSD.
>
> As a lot of services depend on TCP wrappers, enhancing its functionaly a
> little bit might be very useful.
You might want to look at xinetd which will replace inetd in RH7.0. I
don't have real world experience with it but the feature list seems nice
regarding access control & others as well. It's at
http://www.synack.net/xinetd
- Panu -
>
>
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