Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (670 mails)

[Nigel Cox <ncox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks All.
Sorted.
reference in hosts.allow/deny should have been "in.telnetd".

I had read the man and man 5 pages but for some reason my brain said "use
the service name" instead of "use the daemon name" even though it was quite
clear in the example.

Thanks again.

Nigel

Wilko Heyl wrote:

> > Hi,
> > I have a SuSE (Linux 2.2.16) box and am trying to get tcpd to restrict
> > access
> > Effectively I want 1 machine to have telnet access
> > say x.x.x.x (a 102. style internal domain)
> > I have in /etc/inetd.
>
> > telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
>
> > and in /etc/hosts.allow
> > telnet : x.x.x.x
> try
>
> in.telnetd : x.x.x.x
>
> > and in /etc/hosts.deny
> > telnet : ALL
>
> try
>
> in.telnetd : ALL
>
> Wilko
>
> > Question is:
> > why can anyone get on?
>
> > it is as if tcpd is not reading the /etc/hosts.* files
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > Nigel
>
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > This message has been checked for all known viruses by
> > MessageLabs on behalf of Rentokil Initial plc
>
> > --
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx
> > For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@xxxxxxxx
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx
> For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@xxxxxxxx
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
> This message has been checked for all known viruses by
> MessageLabs on behalf of Rentokil Initial plc


_____________________________________________________________________
This message has been checked for all known viruses by 
MessageLabs on behalf of Rentokil Initial plc