Subject: Re: tcp-wrappers, tcpd, and NetBSD
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 03/19/1997 23:34:45
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Dave Huang wrote:

> In any case, yeah, you can get libwrap to do ident lookups and allow/deny 
> based on that. I was under the impression that libwrap basically _was_
> tcpd (i.e. tcpd uses libwrap to do its stuff). Is this not the case?

There are a few things, such as the `twist' command, that are done
by tcpd, and not by libwrap.

cjs

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