tcp wrappers

Vince jhary at unsane.co.uk
Mon Jan 7 13:59:54 PST 2008


Jim Pazarena wrote:
> tcp wrappers does not seem to be compiled with the 'blacklist patch' 
> which Wietse Venema provided
> some years back.
> 
> I am curious if/why the implementor(s) within FreeBSD chose to ignore 
> that useful patch?
> 
> Would someone please point out to me how/where I could re-compile tcpd 
> to include
> this patch? I am struggling trying to find the tcpd source on my system.
> 
Umm I think we use /usr/src/contrib/tcp_wrappers, not idea about the 
lack of 'blacklist patch' though.
Should be a case of patching the source there then
cd /usr/src/libexec/tcpd
make && make install clean
Although presumably you need to recompile anything that uses libwrap not 
just tcpd.

Vince

> Thanks
> 
> Jim Pazarena
> 
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