Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-06-06 Thread Michael Stahl
On 06/06/14 00:25, David Sommerseth wrote: On 20/03/14 20:05, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 20.03.14 12:20, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: I doubt there are many people even using them anymore, firewalls are more comprehensive and a lot more powerful, and while every admin

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-06-05 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 21:15 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Adam Williamson writes: Sam, this was clearly a half-baked thought Lennart threw out in passing. It wasn't a formal proposal. I don't think there was any danger of anyone possibly considering that. It's bad enough that

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-06-05 Thread David Sommerseth
On 20/03/14 20:05, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 20.03.14 12:20, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: I doubt there are many people even using them anymore, firewalls are more comprehensive and a lot more powerful, and while every admin knows firewalls, I figure only very few

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-06-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 19:12 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Can't wait for this latest howler from the great minds of Fedora to hit Slashdot. NECRO ALERT Still catching up on devel@ archives. This was an interesting thread to read in retrospect (and much of it over my head), but I was

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Adam Williamson writes: Sam, this was clearly a half-baked thought Lennart threw out in passing. It wasn't a formal proposal. I don't think there was any danger of anyone possibly considering that. It's bad enough that Slashdot et al pick this stuff up and then badly misrepresent it; having

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-29 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/28/2014 03:49 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 09:58 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:57:27AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-29 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2014-04-27 19:02 GMT-03:00 Andrew Price anpr...@redhat.com: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and how feasible is it anyway? - Do we have any usage statistics?

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
2014-04-28 00:02 keltezéssel, Andrew Price írta: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and how feasible is it anyway? - Do we have any usage statistics? - How often do

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
2014-04-28 09:52 keltezéssel, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos írta: On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and how

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 28.4.2014 09:52, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos napsal(a): On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. I love the idea, but ... Would it be worth

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On 04/28/2014 09:52 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: setjmp and longjmp are tools, that one may use in a good or bad way. Along the same lines one could argue for dropping programs that use goto in Fedora (because everyone knows that goto is bad). All compliant uses of setjmp/longjmp can be

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:52:36AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 10:10 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: To the point, if a program uses setjmp and longjmp it is often that there was no other way to do it. You cannot for example have a co-routine/fiber implementation in C without setjmp() and longjmp(). That's not correct - you can

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: Just one datapoint: have fun rewriting PostgreSQL's error handling while still keeping it portable and acceptable upstream. Not to mention Cerberus (a.k.a. Tom Lane) who guards that entrance, reads this list and IIRC is a Red

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and how feasible is it anyway? I don't think it'd be worth the effort,

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:47:53 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi zbos...@freemail.hu wrote: Just one datapoint: have fun rewriting PostgreSQL's error handling while still keeping it portable and acceptable upstream. Not to mention Cerberus (a.k.a. Tom Lane) who guards that entrance, reads this list

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Casey Dahlin
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:57:27AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014, Adam Jackson wrote: A completely arbitrary datapoint: dmt:~% file /lib64/* | grep ELF.*shared | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs nm -aDu | grep -c setjmp 79 At a minimum you'd have to rewrite freetype, have fun with that. I'm happy for libreswan/openswan to not use it, if someone

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Florian Weimer
On 04/28/2014 02:57 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: A completely arbitrary datapoint: dmt:~% file /lib64/* | grep ELF.*shared | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs nm -aDu | grep -c setjmp 79 Less arbitrary data point: 761 source packages in Fedora rawhide reference any of the setjmp, _setjmp, or __sigsetjmp

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Adam Jackson
On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 09:58 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 08:57:27AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-28 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-04-28 0:02 GMT+02:00 Andrew Price anpr...@redhat.com: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and how feasible is it anyway? Generally no. Been there, done

Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-27 Thread Andrew Price
On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and how feasible is it anyway? - Do we have any usage statistics? - How often do we see bugs caused by bad uses of setjmp/longjmp?

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Andrew Price writes: On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for all code included in Fedora. Would it be worth the effort, and how feasible is it anyway? - Do we have any usage statistics? - How often do we see bugs caused by bad

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: According to its manpage, setjmp and longjmp conform to C89, C99, and POSIX. I'm afraid I just can't wrap my brain around a concept of something that's good enough for POSIX, but not good enough for Fedora. Just because a API is

Re: Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-04-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: Hi On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Sam Varshavchik  wrote: According to its manpage, setjmp and longjmp conform to C89, C99, and POSIX. I'm afraid I just can't wrap my brain around a concept of something that's good enough for POSIX, but not good enough

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-04-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 20.03.14 18:34, Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) wrote: Heya! I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support for it by default, but I am not sure I want to do that unless we can

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-29 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 03/28/2014 12:49 PM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:34:22 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: I doubt there are many people even using them anymore, firewalls are more comprehensive and a lot more powerful, and while every admin knows firewalls, I figure only

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-29 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 29.03.2014 15:54, schrieb Orion Poplawski: What gives you the impression that fail2ban is crusty? It's being actively developed upstream and integrates with firewalld now. Are those particularly onerous dependencies? and that is the problem / difference to tcpwrapper it integrates in

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-29 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com wrote: What gives you the impression that fail2ban is crusty? It's being actively developed upstream and integrates with firewalld now. Are those particularly onerous dependencies? and with journal integration,

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-28 Thread Petr Lautrbach
On 03/20/2014 08:05 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 20.03.14 12:20, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: I doubt there are many people even using them anymore, firewalls are more comprehensive and a lot more powerful, and while every admin knows firewalls, I figure only very

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.03.2014 14:39, schrieb Petr Lautrbach: On 03/20/2014 08:05 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Thu, 20.03.14 12:20, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: I doubt there are many people even using them anymore, firewalls are more comprehensive and a lot more powerful, and while

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.03.2014 14:48, schrieb Petr Lautrbach: On 03/28/2014 02:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: - every change in sshd_config has to be confirmed by sshd restart, while changing hosts.deny doesn't need any other action no - try it out! make a fatal syntax error in sshd_config and in case of a

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-28 Thread Petr Lautrbach
On 03/28/2014 02:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: - every change in sshd_config has to be confirmed by sshd restart, while changing hosts.deny doesn't need any other action no - try it out! make a fatal syntax error in sshd_config and in case of a remote machine make sure you don't close the

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-28 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:05:21 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Well, all mails servers as well as sshd have much better ways to do such filtering. sshd has Match, The sshd's Match does not have any historic criteria (e.g. sshd does not keep a database of previous login

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-28 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 18:34:22 +0100 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: I doubt there are many people even using them anymore, firewalls are more comprehensive and a lot more powerful, and while every admin knows firewalls, I figure only very few know tcpd/tcpwrap, and even fewer

leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:17:20PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: For the record Fedora is not a bleeding edge distro anymore or first in anything maybe some people should consider the difference between leading and bleeding smart: leading if things are ready dumb: bleeding for any price

Re: proactively deprecating things that should be -- base design wg [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:18:58PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: It's a pity though that nobody in Fedora is actively working on getting rid of legacy cruft. I really wished we had some people who oversee

Re: leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 09:24 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: I agree with Harald here. I think some people have always wanted it to be, but Fedora never really has been chartered to be bleeding. To quote the first foundation more fully: First represents our commitment to innovation. We are not

Re: leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.03.2014 15:22, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 03/25/2014 01:24 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:17:20PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: For the record Fedora is not a bleeding edge distro anymore or first in anything maybe some people should consider the difference

Re: leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Kevin Fenzi
Everyone in this thread: Please re-read our code of conduct (in the footer of every single message). Stop attacking people. Please stick to constructive comments about ideas instead. kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.03.2014 15:54, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 03/25/2014 02:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: stop your destructive FUD, without users developers and contributors are *meaningless* and with throwing alpha-state software to the users and make them bleed all the time you will end in no

Re: leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/25/2014 02:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: stop your destructive FUD, without users developers and contributors are*meaningless* and with throwing alpha-state software to the users and make them bleed all the time you will end in no users at all if you don't understand that, don't care for

Re: leading vs. bleeding [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/25/2014 01:24 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 09:17:20PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: For the record Fedora is not a bleeding edge distro anymore or first in anything maybe some people should consider the difference between leading and bleeding smart: leading if things

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 20 mars 2014 20:44, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : I am giving you a standard enterprise problem. I can confirm that thanks to the stability of the config file, tcpwrappers is widely used here. IPtables has just started getting some adoption (after years of turf wars between firewall

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Sam 22 mars 2014 01:20, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : The RHEL documentation, apart from fully describing the abilities, specifically describes two uses: a ftpd banner Surprisingly, ftp is still widely used entreprise-side, because ssh is giving too much access, and no one released an easy to

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 12:57, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Sam 22 mars 2014 01:20, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : The RHEL documentation, apart from fully describing the abilities, specifically describes two uses: a ftpd banner Surprisingly, ftp is still widely used entreprise-side, because ssh is

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Florian Weimer
On 03/24/2014 01:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.03.2014 12:57, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Sam 22 mars 2014 01:20, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : The RHEL documentation, apart from fully describing the abilities, specifically describes two uses: a ftpd banner Surprisingly, ftp is still widely

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 13:21, schrieb Florian Weimer: On 03/24/2014 01:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.03.2014 12:57, schrieb Nicolas Mailhot: Le Sam 22 mars 2014 01:20, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : The RHEL documentation, apart from fully describing the abilities, specifically describes two uses: a

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Florian Weimer
On 03/24/2014 01:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: It's still very difficult to securely process uploaded files under a different user account. Some SFTP clients set restrictive permissions on upload, and the OpenSSH implementation does not allow to bypass that. man umask [root@rh:/downloads]$

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 13:26, schrieb Florian Weimer: On 03/24/2014 01:23 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: It's still very difficult to securely process uploaded files under a different user account. Some SFTP clients set restrictive permissions on upload, and the OpenSSH implementation does not allow

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Sam 22 mars 2014 03:21, Lennart Poettering a écrit : And you honestly believe that people who are capable enough of setting up DNS locally and across the company in a secure way to do something To set up DNS securely you need a handful of people to manage a master dns and its slave on the

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Corey Sheldon
this is the proverbal security vs. convenience issue safety unfortunately isn't convenient Corey W Sheldon Owner, 1st Class Mobile Shine 310.909.7672 www.facebook.com/1stclassmobileshine On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Florian Weimer fwei...@redhat.com wrote: On 03/24/2014 01:06 PM, Reindl

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 20.03.14 18:34, Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) wrote: Heya! I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support for it by default, but I am not sure I want to do that unless we can

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 March 2014 12:18, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: It's a pity though that nobody in Fedora is actively working on getting rid of legacy cruft. I really wished we had some people who oversee deprecating things more proactively, figure out how to deprecate things, write

proactively deprecating things that should be -- base design wg [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

2014-03-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:18:58PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: I am not going to file a feature for Fedora, to remove support for it entirely across the whole distro. I still think dropping it is the right thing to do, but I don't think it's a good use of my own time, to fight this

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/24/2014 06:50 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 24 March 2014 12:18, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de mailto:mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: It's a pity though that nobody in Fedora is actively working on getting rid of legacy cruft. I really wished we had some

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/24/2014 06:18 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: It's a pity though that nobody in Fedora is actively working on getting rid of legacy cruft. I really wished we had some people who oversee deprecating things more proactively, figure out how to deprecate things, write stub code to provide

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 20:27, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: But certain people seem to rather want to drown Fedora in bureaucracy and vague future proposals and working groups instead of doing what needs to be done. no, certain people want to do something *useful* with their sytems and precious

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 20:30, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: Being at the bleeding edge of things also means deciding that some things really should go, from time to time... Besides deprecating old cruft like libwrap, this would also mean removing all the old crap from comps standard that we still

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 24.03.14 20:59, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: Am 24.03.2014 20:27, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: But certain people seem to rather want to drown Fedora in bureaucracy and vague future proposals and working groups instead of doing what needs to be done. no,

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 21:32, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Mon, 24.03.14 20:59, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: Am 24.03.2014 20:27, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: But certain people seem to rather want to drown Fedora in bureaucracy and vague future proposals and working groups

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Bill Nottingham
Lennart Poettering (mzerq...@0pointer.de) said: this through... I'd be happy though if somebody else would pick this up. Looking at the current FESCO members I am not entirely sure though whether a proposal to disable libwrap would have a chance in the current cycle though. (also, M. Miller

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 24.03.14 21:45, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: and that is the problem with you attitude Okeydokey, as you wish, you are now in my killfile. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 21:51, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Mon, 24.03.14 21:45, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: and that is the problem with you attitude Okeydokey, as you wish, you are now in my killfile so what - why should i case about beeing in the killfile of people which

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Peter Robinson
I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support for it by default, but I am not sure I want to do that unless we can maybe say goodbye to it for the big picture too. I have decided now to drop all

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 22:22, schrieb Peter Robinson: Interesting! You sent the email starting this thread a mere 4 days ago, two of those a weekend. You've not given it a chance to even go to FESCo meeting for discussion. Did you send it in the same way to the rest of the distros that depend, or are

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 24.03.14 21:22, Peter Robinson (pbrobin...@gmail.com) wrote: Interesting! You sent the email starting this thread a mere 4 days ago, two of those a weekend. You've not given it a chance to even go to FESCo meeting for discussion. Did you send it in the same way to the rest of the

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Simo Sorce
On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 21:22 +, Peter Robinson wrote: I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support for it by default, but I am not sure I want to do that unless we can maybe say goodbye to

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/24/2014 09:22 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support for it by default, but I am not sure I want to do that unless we can maybe say goodbye to it for the big

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.03.2014 22:53, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: By the way the kernel does not have a proper deprecation process which is accurately reflected in all the code that is bit-rotting there so it's not the holy grail of code maintenance as you let it out to be the kernel at least has the

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-03-24 22:53 GMT+01:00 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com: systemd is now, or soon will be, a core component of pretty much all major and minor distributions out there and it's no longer just about you Lennart and your thoughts of whether it's Yuck! or not, you are now similar to

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/24/2014 10:23 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: That doesn't work. On the contrary if it did not the business module Red Hat is build upon would not exist since Red Hat is making money out of stability promises to it's customers which upstream is not providing right. Unfortunately a

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.03.2014 03:07, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Fri, 21.03.14 23:46, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: if you believe it or not: there exists code which don't neeed updates and reweites all te time because it just works and given You do realize that if software

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.03.2014 03:05, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Fri, 21.03.14 23:35, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented or removed in Fedora we have to not only deal with our usual politics and bureaucracy but also all

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.03.2014 03:21, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Sat, 22.03.14 01:20, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: DNS queries can't really be done within the firewall (and due to the circular dependency between having the firewall up before allowing access to the network and needing access to

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/22/2014 04:20 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: I'm not in this thread to discuss technical merits of the existing implementation. It may be 100% crappy code. /All/ of what you say above may be true, but that being true about a widely-used feature /doesn't automatically mean that eliminating

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 02:59:20AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: No, firewalls don't do DNS-based filtering, since it's a security nightmare. Lennart, this isn't true as a general statement. Both Juniper and Cisco firewalls support FQDN-based access rules. Looks like Palo Alto Networks too

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:04:51AM +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: So here's the thing daemons and applications are inconsistent in their support for libwrap like for example sshd supports it while smbd does not which leads to incorrect configuration and administrative expectation which in

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.03.2014 07:15, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 22.03.2014 03:21, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Sat, 22.03.14 01:20, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: DNS queries can't really be done within the firewall (and due to the circular dependency between having the firewall up before allowing

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-22 Thread Rex Dieter
Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: So here's the thing daemons and applications are inconsistent in their support for libwrap like for example sshd supports it while smbd does not which leads to incorrect configuration and administrative expectation which in itself poses a security risk. I don't

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, So maybe a solution would be to write a libwrap2 instead ? Don't think this is the solution. Part of the problem is that some of the functionality is just obsolete in todays world. Trusting IDENT and DNS for access control maybe made sense in the 90ies. It certainly doesn't today, and

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 21.03.14 00:27, Paul Wouters (p...@nohats.ca) wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: I mean, in this day and age we should not consider an ACL language well designed if it basically pushes users to use IDENT and DNS for authentication. (And no, don't say the words

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:34:22PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support I talked to some of the RHEL planning people, and they're okay with marking it

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Dominick Grift
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 20:55 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: So offer something with equivalent functionality (and config file syntax compatibility), with a nice modern clean API and then systemd and others can be moved over to that 1 by 1, and once we've no more users left we can kill of the old

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: we kinda do have dnssec per default. All DNS servers installed per default do DNSSEC. Installing dnssec-trigger makes that even more pervasive. Well, but glibc can't do the DNSSEC client side, can it? Applications that want to do DNSSEC

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 21.03.14 12:37, Paul Wouters (p...@nohats.ca) wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: we kinda do have dnssec per default. All DNS servers installed per default do DNSSEC. Installing dnssec-trigger makes that even more pervasive. Well, but glibc can't do the DNSSEC

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: As long as -lresolve (i.e. glibc and getaddrinfo()) can't do DNSSEC it's just not there... You are proposing changing the api of getaddrinfo()? Could luck with that? Yes, applications that want to see DNSSEC results will have to do a little bit

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 21.03.14 13:05, Paul Wouters (p...@nohats.ca) wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Lennart Poettering wrote: As long as -lresolve (i.e. glibc and getaddrinfo()) can't do DNSSEC it's just not there... You are proposing changing the api of getaddrinfo()? Could luck with that? Dunno, it

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Lennart Poettering: So offer something with equivalent functionality (and config file syntax compatibility), with a nice modern clean API and then systemd and others can be moved over to that 1 by 1, and once we've no more users left we can kill of the old beast ? Nope. In systemd we

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.03.2014 20:02, schrieb Florian Weimer: * Lennart Poettering: So offer something with equivalent functionality (and config file syntax compatibility), with a nice modern clean API and then systemd and others can be moved over to that 1 by 1, and once we've no more users left we can

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/21/2014 02:05 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:34:22PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support I talked to some of the RHEL planning

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com wrote: In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented or removed in Fedora we have to not only deal with our usual politics and bureaucracy but also all the downstream distribution to us as

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/21/2014 10:30 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com mailto:johan...@gmail.com wrote: In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented or removed in Fedora we have to not only deal with our

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.03.2014 23:16, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 03/21/2014 02:05 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:34:22PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.03.2014 23:31, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 03/21/2014 10:30 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johan...@gmail.com mailto:johan...@gmail.com wrote: In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented or

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 03/21/2014 10:35 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: the author of tcpwrapper is Wietse Venema, You do realize when he wrote this and what he was trying to overcome at that time so I have to ask have you spoken to him about how useful he thinks his creation is today and why he stopped maintaining

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.03.2014 23:37, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: On 03/21/2014 10:35 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: the author of tcpwrapper is Wietse Venema, You do realize when he wrote this and what he was trying to overcome at that time so I have to ask have you spoken to him about how useful he

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Miloslav Trmač
2014-03-21 1:00 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de: On Thu, 20.03.14 13:44, Stephen John Smoogen (smo...@gmail.com) wrote: And now I need to have X number applications special syntax to whitelist/blacklist a site. I need to change X files to make that change. Each of those

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 21.03.14 20:02, Florian Weimer (f...@deneb.enyo.de) wrote: * Lennart Poettering: So offer something with equivalent functionality (and config file syntax compatibility), with a nice modern clean API and then systemd and others can be moved over to that 1 by 1, and once we've no

Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

2014-03-21 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 21.03.14 23:35, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented or removed in Fedora we have to not only deal with our usual politics and bureaucracy but also all the downstream distribution to us as well...

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