Hey all, I'm thinking of bolstering system security via TCP wrappers - that is, configuring the hosts.allow and hosts.deny file to control who can access my system. (It has a static, public IP.)
Here's my question. If I set hosts.deny to "ALL" (meaning deny all services to all users) then set hosts.allow to (ALLOW FROM 198.34.xxx.xxx) meaning allow users from 198.34.xxx.xxx to connect, how will that affect those who try to access the server's website? It's my understanding from books I've read that the server looks at hosts.allow, THEN hosts.deny, meaning that allow takes precedence over deny. However, the texts don't say how httpd.conf factors in. There is a setting in httpd.conf that controls "who can get stuff from this server" as the comments say. So my question is this. Do the settings in hosts.allow/deny override the settings in httpd.conf? Thanks, Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
