Re: [ILUG] tcpd

From: Kirk Bollinger (kirk at domain thebollingers.net)
Date: Mon 29 Jul 2002 - 21:41:05 IST


On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, kevin lyda wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 11:58:10AM -0700, Paul O'Neil wrote:
> > If I want to use tcpd for ftp and only one user will ever ftp but I dont
> > know what IP that user is because its dialup DHCP how do I setup tcpd for
> > that user?
>

You could at the very least setup tcp wrappers and limit it to the dialup
domain name.

/etc/hosts.allow

in.ftpd: .domain.name

-kirk

> please don't reply to messages to send a new topic to ilug. those of
> us using threaded mail clients find that really annoying.
>
> tcpd is host based filtering/auth. so if the ip is dynamic, you can't
> really use it. however ftp supports user based auth - actually it kind
> of requires a user, so just set up an account for that person.
>
> kevin
>
>



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