[TriLUG] hosts.deny question?

[Alan Porter]

WA Brown wrote:

> Someone said that the server should use tcp wrappers. How can I find 
> out if it does?


There's no magic command for this.  But this trick works.

# strings -f yourbinaryfile | grep hosts_access

If the binary has been compiled against libwrap.a, you'll
see at least one line of output with a matched string.

For more information, see:
http://www.php-editors.com/linuxredhat/ch-tcpwrappers.html


Alan



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