Subject: Re: Help for a newbie
From: Steve Freitas (sflist@ihonk.com)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 14:29:02 EDT
>I am not well acquainted with tcp wrappers, but doesn't tcp wrappers
>only apply if you are starting afpd from /etc/inetd.conf, and not the
>SysV-style /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk script? On the other hand, if you use
>ipchains to block the port, then it shouldn't matter how you start the
>server, because then the firewalling is done at a lower level in the
>kernel.
I bow to your grater knowledge. :-) Ipchains is it.
> Beyond that, it seems to me that both the ipchains and tcp wrappers
>solutions would block *all* access, or none; neither could be used to
>limit it to guest access. What Colin was asking for is access control
>based on both IP and user ID.
My impression was that he was asking to exclude a range of IPs
completely. Colin, can you sort this out? :-)
Steve
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