Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (670 mails)

["Ulf Leichsenring" <uleichsenring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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
> 
> and in /etc/hosts.deny
> telnet : ALL
> 
> Question is:
> why can anyone get on?

Just put into the /etc/hosts.allow:
in.telnetd: x.x.x.x

and into /etc/hosts.deny:
in.telnetd: ALL

That should give you the expected results.
Ulf

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