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

Borja Marcos borjam at sarenet.es
Mon Feb 17 07:02:10 UTC 2020



> 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. 





Borja.



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