Patrick Powell wrote:
>
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 26 22:12:12 2002
> > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:09:01 +1100
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: LPRng: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#140033: lprng: [PATCH] lprng
>should use the libwrap library (/etc/hosts.{allow,deny})]
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small)
> >
> > Hello Patrick,
> > Here is a patch from the SuSE folks that allows you to use libwrap.
>
> I hate to add one more level of complexity to this whole issue,
> but WHY would you want to add tcp wrappers to the confusion?
>
> Note 1: libwrap is not available on all systems, you would need to
> add a configure entry to handle this.
> Note 2: now you have to configure the TCP wrappers to handle lpd.
> Note 3: you need to DOCUMENT this as well, so that unsuspecting
> folks do not get blown away by the fun stuff.
> Note 4: LPRng already has a mechanism (lpd.perms) to handle this...
> that is documented and portable across various systems.
>
> I thought about this for quite a while before I reluctantly concluded
> that the costs (dependencies, portability, multiple layers of authentication)
> outweighed the benefits of using this.
>
> sigh...
>
> If you want, I will put the patches into the next LPRng distribution.
Perhaps a vote would be appropriate. Personally, I would like to hear
some justification before adding redundant complexity to LPRng. It
violates KISS.
-Rick
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