[Gllug] security and the /etc/host* files, possibly portmap?
John Hearns
john.hearns at framestore.co.uk
Thu Oct 4 15:53:41 UTC 2001
will wrote:
>O' collective brain,
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>And any idea how I can let a particular host on my network connect, but
>limiting it possiby to just being able to see an open telnet port?
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For that, use tcpwrappers.
Quick look at a RH 7.1 machine - it should come out of the box.
Then look at the man pages for hosts.allow and hosts.deny
But as Alain says better to use ssh,
as security experts on the list will tell us that tcpwrappers aren't all
that hot, or something.
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