On 11/13/2016 01:21 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016 18:48:21 +0100 Per Jessen <> wrote:
Also, rsyncd seems to ignore my "hosts deny" setting - I tried refusing access to a couple of the most frequently hanging clients, but afaict, rsyncd just ignores "hosts deny". I haven't tried anything like this so can't help at all with this point. I read somewhere that this file is been ignored by many daemons. Maybe
On 2016-11-13 22:10, Dave Howorth wrote: the intention is to use the firewall instead.
I remember reading that tcpwrappers is now deprecated. There are apparently vastly superior ways to control remote access these days. It's well known that iptables is much easier to understand and configure safely than hosts.allow and hosts.deny. I'm also sure that systemd has various target files somewhere that can also serve. After all, why should we continue to use a capability that has been serving us well for 20 and more years when there are new shiny things hanging about to occupy our attention? (do I need a smiley?) Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org