On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:02:03PM +0200, Philipp Bachmann wrote:
> Hey,
>
> it was nice if rsync could be linked against "libwrap" (inside the
> tcp_wrappers-tool) by Wietse Venema
> <http://www.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html>. If run as a stand
> alone-daemon, not from inetd, you could deny access from certain hosts to
> rsync this way. A patch shouldn't be too hard to develop, as e.g. the very
> little code changes in OpenSSH, which can be liked against "libwrap"
> already, indicate, that are necessary to support this additional
> functionality.
>
> Regards,
> Philipp Bachmann.
What are the advantages of that over rsyncd.conf's "hosts allow" and
"hosts deny"?
I don't know Andrew's reasons for implementing those instead of linking
with libwrap.
- Dave Dykstra
