On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:56:27AM -0400, Rob Munsch wrote: > As was suggested to me, i did an strace. > No attempt is made to check hosts.allow or hosts.deny. > Since this is the version quoted above, and ldd gives me the same > results, and it still doesn't try to check hosts.anything - is there a > config file option, or should i rip it out and reinstall..?
I'd file a bug through the Debian bug tracking system at this point, since there seems to be a problem with the way the Debian maintainer built the package. You can do that with "reportbug", or check http://bugs.debian.org/ for more information. As a workaround in the meantime, installing it from source might be an option worth pursuing. If you're comfortable building it from scratch using the upstream (www.openssh.org) source tarball, that's fine. Otherwise, the Debian way would be something like: $ sudo apt-get build-dep openssh $ apt-get source openssh $ cd openssh-4.3whatever $ vi debian/rules $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot What's really weird here is that when I look in debian/rules for the 4.3p2-5 package, it *does* have --with-tcp-wrappers in a configure command. (Although I don't have all the build-deps installed at the moment to actually build it.) So whatever's going on, it's awfully strange and subtle. Maybe the Debian maintainer can figure it out.
