Re: telnet on a specific ip address

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Martin Gregorie wrote:

MG> >
MG> Does telnetd take any notice of /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny? If not,
MG> you can always use tcpd , which DOES use them, as a wrapper for telnetd.
MG>

Thankyou for that pointer. I'd be using tcpd as:

# https stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd

in inetd.conf

I've had a look at man hosts_access - its not very readable but I can see
that there is mention of ip numbers. It looks hopeful.

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