Re: [Devil-linux-develop] tcpwrapper

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

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On Wed, December 21, 2005 08:57, Serge Leschinsky wrote:
> Dear Heiko,
>
>
> Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 5:38:14 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>> Serge's latest fix for tcpwrapper (missing .h file in /usr/include),
>> brought up a problem with quota-tools.
> If I have broken the quota-tools - obviously I should fix it...
>
>
>> While searching for an update for tcpwrapper (which I didn't find), I
>> recognized that SuSE and Debian are not using tcpwrappers anymore.
>> tcpwrapper seems to not have been updated in the last 8 (eight !!!)
>> years. Do we really still need it?
>>
> As for me I prefer to disable tcpwrapper in quota-tools. In previous
> DL releases quota-tools was built without tcpwrapper support, so we just
> revert this package to its initial state.
>
> I'll do it if you don't mind.

Sure, go ahead.

Another question is, why do we even need tcpwrappers ?
Wouldn't it make more sense to force people to use iptables ?

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org


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