I can't find it back right now, but if my memory serves me well I think
have read somewhere that sshd (at least from OpenSSH) uses the
hosts.deny and hosts.allow files on it's own, without being run by
inetd.

Regards
Gustav

"John D. Hardin" wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Mike Burger wrote:
> 
> > Most ssh daemons run as a standalone daemon, and don't interact
> > with inetd/xinetd and don't pay any attention to hosts.allow or
> > hosts.deny.
> 
> Be careful there. tcpwrappers is a compile-time option in sshd. And
> it's possible (though not generally recommended) to run sshd out of
> inetd rather than as a standalone daemon.

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