Re: Early heads-up: plan to remove local patches for TCP Wrappers support in sshd
Joey Kelly <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.security.general |
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| Message-ID | <1997012.9LfIMBbbVL@deborah> |
On Friday, February 14, 2020 04:16:53 PM Ed Maste wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 15:27, Joey Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday, February 14, 2020 01:18:44 PM Ed Maste wrote: > > > Upstream OpenSSH-portable removed libwrap support in version 6.7, > > > released in October 2014. We've maintained a patch in our tree to > > > restore it, but it causes friction on each OpenSSH update and may > > > introduce security vulnerabilities not present upstream. It's (past) > > > time to remove it. > > > > So color me ignorant, but how does this affect things like DenyHosts? > > It's independent of denyhosts, fail2ban, blacklistd and similar. TCP > wrappers is configured using /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. root@marsh:~ # tail -3 /etc/hosts.allow # for denyhosts sshd : /etc/hosts.deniedssh : deny sshd : ALL : allow -- Joey Kelly Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant http://joeykelly.net 504-239-6550 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"