[ale] hosts.allow

[jlangseth at esisys.com (Jacob Langseth)]

On Friday, May 15, 1998 1:34 PM, Mir Shafiqul Islam [SMTP:mir at oisp.gsu.edu] 
wrote:
> Hi I am trying to setup a hosts.allow file to restrict access, but seems
> like it is not being read.

> Here is what I have in hosts.allow file

> ftpd:   \
>         131.45.23.45

> ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.ftpd -l -a

 - sshd must be compiled with libwrap.a to support hosts.{allow,deny}
 - in inetd.conf, you reference the ftp daemon as in.ftpd.  So it must
	also be in hosts.{allow,deny}
 - make sure there's an in.ftpd: ALL entry in hosts.deny

Hope this helps,
--
Jacob Langseth <jlangseth at esisys.com>
CTI Engineer -- Enhanced Systems, Inc.