[Techtalk] Security question

mgmonza at otaku.freeshell.org mgmonza at otaku.freeshell.org
Thu Mar 13 20:40:00 UTC 2008


This helps to figure out why they were using what they did.

Thank you.

Kathy

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, mmp_fox at bellsouth.net wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:29:40 +0000
> From: mmp_fox at bellsouth.net
> To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Security question
> 
> Any products compiled libwrap can be used directly.  Other services must be used "through" things like the wrappers or xinetd (which have the wrapper built into them).
>
> To see if a binary has libwrap.so in it directly:
> ldd binaryFileName | grep libwrap.
>
> If nothing comes back, it doesn't have libwrap.
>
> - Barbara Fox
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The files you referenced are, as far I can recall, part of the tcp
>> wrapperd (tcpd) package
>> by Wietse Venema. Only programs that are written with tcpwrappers
>> (link the library?) or
>> run through tcpd ( in [x]inetd ) will be affected by them.
>>
>> I think ssh (openssh) does use wrappers, but you'd have to check your
>> ftpd to see if
>> it does or if you are wrapping it in inetd.
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> adric
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:56 PM, mgmonza at faeroes.freeshell.org wrote:
>>
>>> If I have hosts.deny set to all.paranoid and hosts.allow set like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> ALL: myid at myother.place.org
>>> All: 321.12.123.333
>>>
>>> (fake IP address there)
>>>
>>> can attacks from outside get in to use ftp, ssh etc? I thought not,
>>> but
>>> Firestarter's kinda scaring me with what's coming in.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>>
>>> Kathy
>>>
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>>
>>
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