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

titus manea titus at edc.ro
Mon Feb 17 07:34:21 UTC 2020



> On Feb 17, 2020, at 9:02 AM, Borja Marcos <borjam at sarenet.es> wrote:
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>> On 14 Feb 2020, at 19:18, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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. 
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> Borja.
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