At 10:29 AM 2/15/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 09:50, JSheble wrote:
> > could somebody help me out with my hosts.allow and hosts.allow files?
> >
> > I'd like to allow access to the web server to anyone, but FTP and SSH I
> > want to limit to two specific IPs...  could somebody learn me the entries
> > I'll want to make to allow this?
>
>Those files are only used with the inetd and xinetd daemons. Since
>Apache is not controlled by these (it runs as a separate service, the
>httpd daemon), your hosts.* files will not affect access to your
>website. You will need to consult the Apache documentation (maybe in
>/usr/share/doc/apache, or check the Apache website) for this.
>
>The same goes for ssh, which also runs as a separate service, the sshd
>daemon. 'man sshd' for more information.

Couldn't I add the sshd service to the xinetd or inetd config files to open 
and start those services, thus forcing access rules in hosts.* files to be 
enforced?


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