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...

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