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David Tansley on using TCP Wrappers to control access

Introduction to article that gives systems administrators more access control

Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
Scott Laningham
Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. Prior to IBM, he was an award-winning reporter and director for news programming featured on Public Radio International, a freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and a songwriter/musician.

Summary:  AIX® system administrator Dave Tansley previews a new developerWorks article, Using TCP wrappers to control access, that details how TCP Wrappers allow system administrators to control and log incoming TCP-based connections to the local host that are run from inetd.conf.

Date:  12 Jul 2011
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (56KB | 8 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Guest, Dave Tansley: Hi, I'm Dave Tansley. I work as an [IBM®] p Series administrator for a global insurance company. Today I want to talk to you about one of my articles called Using TCP wrappers to control access. It covers how to compile, deploy and administer the TCP wrappers utility.

Use the allow-and-deny rules to allow or deny access

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TCP wrappers are often referred to [just] as "wrappers." They allow you to control TCP-based programs' incoming access to your box.

To start with, though, only TCPD daemons that were run from inetd.conf could be controlled by wrappers. However, as wrappers are so popular, utilities like SSH, VSFTPD, mail, and many more are designed wrappers aware.

Wrappers use the allow-and-deny rules to either allow or deny access. For programs that were built with wrapper awareness — for example, SSH — it is SSH's responsibility to directly consult the host allow or the host deny files and adhere to the rules on whether to allow or deny access. Either grant or deny, the event is logged under syslog.

I'm Dave Tansley. We hope you enjoy reading my article.

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