Early heads-up: plan to remove local patches for TCP Wrappers support in sshd

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 17-2-2020 08:02, Borja Marcos wrote:
>
>> On 14 Feb 2020, at 19:18, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Upstream OpenSSH-portable removed libwrap support in version 6.7,
>> released in October 2014. We've maintained a patch in our tree to
>> restore it, but it causes friction on each OpenSSH update and may
>> introduce security vulnerabilities not present upstream. It's (past)
>> time to remove it.
> There’s no way to fight it? I know it’s an old program (first time I used it was back in 1992 or so!)
> but it’s really convenient and easy to use.
>
I remember porting it to Apollo Domain OS with Wietse Venema when we both
worked at Eindhoven University. And Wiestse was complaining that PID 
were not
unique and sequential.

So my guess would be that its origin lies somewhere around 1986-1988..
At that  time TCPwrappers was a good part of security, since firewall 
and likes
  were close to hard to get and/or unavailable. But in current times 
there usually
are better ways to fix things, but I guess that all use something of a 
firewall
be it ipfw of pf. (using both sshguard, fail2ban or portsentry)

So it'll be said to see it go, but I guess it has served its purpose.

--WjW