Re: Help setting up and learning about PAM /tcp-wrappers /etc..

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Nelson Little wrote:
>I have installed tcp-wrappers and PAM on my RH5.2 system, but I have little
>or no idea how to use them properly. I did try to read the docs in
>/usr/doc/.. but there are so many pages and I ended up getting lost way
>over my head.

The tcpd daemon checks incoming connections against the restrictions you
set in hosts.allow and hosts.deny. A descritpion of how it works is in the
Network Administrators Guide (NAG) at the LDP. I found it useful enough o
download and add to the docs in /usr/doc/LDP on my local system. The tcpd
stuff starts in node125.html.

Some more specific examples are in the man pages. Try 

	man 3 hosts_access
	man 5 hosts_access
	man tcpd


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