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

[Ed Maste]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 15:27, Joey Kelly <joey at joeykelly.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday, February 14, 2020 01:18:44 PM Ed Maste 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.
>
> So color me ignorant, but how does this affect things like DenyHosts?

It's independent of denyhosts, fail2ban, blacklistd and similar. TCP
wrappers is configured using /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.