Hello Hillel, >> It is possible to remove the dependency, but there is a reason why >> p9100 (and a few other packages) are compiled with libwrap support. LEAF >> is modular, so it is possible to use LEAF without shorewall as a pure >> router or printserver (or whatever), libwrap gives some extra security >> in the cases where iptables/shorewall isn't installed. >> > > We use LEAF without shorewall for other things. > > > Could security for a libwrap-supported package be pointed at > another one of the common Linux host access allowance files like > "hosts.lpd" instead of "hosts.allow"? Then the p9100 package could > "own" the file and provide editing in the administrative interface > without messing other things up. > It's not clear to me what you mean, there is just one hosts.allow file which is used by multiple packages and also inetd in the root.lrp package. The hosts.allow file is a config file from the libwrap library, not from the p9100 daemon. It's not possible to use a different "allow" file for the p9100 package alone.
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