Robert Seastrom <[email protected]> wrote:

> My $0.02 - I consider this a wobbler. If it weren't for the relatively
> short notice that we're getting rid of it, I wouldn't particularly support
> putting it back in, but the OpenSSH guys have good reasons for getting rid
> of it.
> 
> Given that the consequences could be fairly severe if people are counting
> on hosts.allow/deny to save them from "the Internet", if you put it back
> as a migration strategy it might be worthwhile for sshd to complain on
> interactive logins, system logs, and anywhere else that it might be
> noticed if it finds non-default hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. You’ve
> been able to implement the functionality via "Match" for literally
> years…

Unfortunately the libwrap API doesn’t seem to provide a decent way to detect
this. 

For now I’ve just put in a revert patch that adds the support for
tcpwrappers back in as it was in older versions (no deprecation warning).
It’s a pretty short patch anyway, so carrying it around for an extended
period doesn’t seem like a huge technical risk. It should be in the release
that gets cut tomorrow.

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