Mark Knecht wrote: >2) The contents o the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. > >Where are these files? They do not seem to be present on my machine? >Should they not be created by some part of the baseline system >install? > >
The files hosts.allow and hosts.deny are the configuration files for TCP wrappers/tcpd access control. Anything that runs under tcpd (or is built with +tcpd) will use these files to determine what machines can (hosts.allow) or cannot (hosts.deny) access the server. So if you USE +tcpd (usually a good idea!), you'll want to read "man hosts.allow". >* sys-apps/xinetd > > I don't know if inetd is required, but if so, this is the one you want on the server. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
