Re: security programs

["L. C. Robinson" <lcr@onewest.net>]

Well, knowing that xinetd had replaced most or all of
the functionality of tcp_wrappers in recent Red Hat
versions (but they still installed it by default, for
some reason), I ran:

rpm -q tcp_wrappers --whatrequires

to find out what still uses it, and came up with
nothing.  Probably some server I haven't installed
still needs it, or libwrap.a is needed to compile
something.

Anyway, as you have guessed by now, slackware probably
uses xinetd too, thereby obsoleting tcp_wrappers.
Alternatively, maybe slackware has a slightly different
naming scheme for that package?

Bottom line, look at the documentation for xinetd,
assuming that is what slackware now uses, and see if
you care any more about tcp_wrappers (probably not).
Sorry about my error; hopefully you now have the info
you need (look to xinetd for the replacement
functionality).

LCR

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> By that standard, slackware 8.0.0 seems to fail.
> Unless tcp_wrappers is hidden and protecting itself
> from update.
 
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, L. C. Robinson wrote:
> 
> > Tcp_wrappers is a standard binary part of Red Hat,
> > and any other decent distribution.  It is essential
> > to configure it after a new installation, for any
> > decent security, of course, along with the other
> > security configuration basics, such as installing
> > all security updates.  If one neglects those
> > things, good security tools in linux are worthless,
> > and you WILL get hacked (but maybe not quite so
> > quickly as with a certain dominant vendor's junk
> > software).

> > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone managed to get tcp_wrappers_7.6 built
> > > and operating under any version oor any brand of
> > > linux yet?  If you don't know what that i
> > > ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html
> > > should give you background info.

-- 
L. C. Robinson
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