Re: hosts.allow

[charles@lunarmedia.net]

Can someone possibly send me the man page on hosts.*
slack doesnt seem to have it.

C J Menzes
Systems Engineer
Lunar Media Inc.
www.lunarmedia.net

On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Mike Gatton wrote:

> 
> >         I understand that much of how it works, but say that I wanted to
> >         allow pop3 to all, but still deny all other services to all.
> >         I assume that hosts.allow statements are composed of :
> >         service:hosts/network
> >         thus ALL : 10.254.4. will allow anything on the 10.254.4.0/24
> >         subnet access to all network services. I am looking for something
> >         more granular that would be something like:
> >
> >         POP3 : ALL
> >         ALL : 192.168.100.
> >         ALL : 10.254.9.
> >
> >         so that I would be able to allow the world pop capabilities, yet
> >         restrain access to all other netowrk services to specific
> >         networks.
> >
> >         Any ideas?
> >         Charles
> >
> >
> 
> I'm as far from being an expert as it gets, but looking at the man pages on
> hosts.allow, it would appear that the above example would work if you changed
> the POP3:ALL to the name of the service as specified in /etc/inetd.conf I
> believe that the following should allow POP service to the world, yet deny
> everything else to the world...
> 
> /etc/hosts.allow
>     ipop3d:ALL
>     ALL: .mydomain.com
> 
> /etc/hosts.deny
>     ALL:ALL
> 
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