Re: cygwin-1.7, sshd, tcpd, and IPv6/Vista

2008-12-30 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Charles Wilson wrote: So, the "allow" entries in hosts.allow are really only enabling access form the actual "127.0.0.1" aka "::1" machine -- that is, the actual local host. They do not REALLY enable access from those bad guys that spybot maps to localhost. Can anybody thi

cygwin-1.7, sshd, tcpd, and IPv6/Vista

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Noticed an odd behavior when setting up cygwin-1.7 and sshd. Because cygwin-1.7 (and the cygwin-1.7 flavors of openssh and tcp_wrappers) support IPv6 when the underlying host OS supports it...the default /etc/hosts.allow "paranoid" setting matches for "localhost". That is, 'ssh localhost' is denie