I dunno, its a "known problem" for quite a while (since xinetd replaced
inetd on most distros I think).


On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:00:58 +1200
Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yes that was irritating,
> 
> is there any info on why localhost does not work in that entry?
> 
> The /etc/hosts did contain all of the loopback stuff so *theoretically*
> it should have worked.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 10:06, Nick Rout wrote:
> > David, are you the samba/swat guy?  If so this is an important security
> > alert for you !
> > 
> > when we commented out the line "only_from=localhost" from
> > /etc/xinetd.d/swat  we should have changed it to "only_from = 127.0.0.1"
> > (or only_from = your localnetwork" so that people on the big bad
> > internet cannot try to login to swat.
> > 
> > don't forget to restart xinetd
> > 
> > service xinetd.d restart
> > 
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