Friday, October 30, 2009

Using TCP Wrappers to secure Linux



TCP Wrappers can be used to GRANT or DENY access to various services on your machine to the outside network or other machines on the same network. It does this by using simple Access List Rules which are included in the two files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny .

Let us consider this scenario: A remote machine remote_mc trying to connect to your local machine local_mc using ssh.
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