On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 06:00:42AM -0600, tod. wrote:
| hey i have problem someone out there might be able to solve.
|
| i use tcp_wrappers to control access to my machine. I have a mostly closed
| system
| in which all ip/domain's are denied access to my machine except for a few
| trusted hosts.
You're confusing tcp_wrappers with a real firewall/IP filter.
| Well, I just installed Licq, and found out that when a chat request is initiated
| by a another user... a tcp request is made to my computer on some port in the
| 1200-1300 range...
|
| So i want the world to be able to send me chat request on those ports, but I
| can't figure out how to only allow incoming traffic from *everyone* on those
| ports.
tcp wrappers is *only* checked when 1) tcpd is invoked, typically with
inetd or 2) you've got a program that was compiled to use libwrap.
(an example of 1) would be telnetd, and an example of 2) would be sshd
compiled with the --with-libwrap option, or the Linux portmapper.)
Licq doesn't fall into either category, so anything involving Licq
will totally ignore anything in /etc/hosts.{allow|deny}.
| I have tested going to a mostly open system with no hosts being denied access
| and everything works
| great.
|
| So i need the lines to add to hosts.allow to make it work.
| I know that typically you would use something like in.telnetd: ALL but since
| Licq is not a daemon, but a user application I can't figure out how to open
| it up.
It's already wide open.
It would be *possible* to make Licq use libwrap ... but there would be
no point.
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Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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