On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:20, Robert Wideman wrote: > I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default > but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book > "Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization" by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually > going through the RH8 security section on NFS and it pointed to securing > portmon which pointed to tcpwrappers. I then looked in the book to find > more detailed info than what i was finding on websites about NFS/tcpwrappers > and it showed that xinetd should be compiled running the configure script > with "--with-libwrap=/usr/libwrap.a". So i looked for the file "libwrap.a" > to see if it was installed and no it was not. I then looked to check to see > if tcpd (tcpwrappers) was installed and no it was not. I was wondering why > this was so. Any thoughts? > > Rob >
I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... -- Sat, 15 Feb 2003 20:20:00 +1100 8:20pm up 3:10, 4 users, load average: 0.58, 0.63, 0.55 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ we just switched to FDDI.
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