[arch-general] bftp & denyhosts

[RedShift]

Sergey Manucharian wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:04:54 +0000
> "Jon Kristian Nilsen" <jokr.nilsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is ther any reason you are using bftp, instead of for example sftp?
>>
> Actually there is no specific reasons, it was installed 2 years
> ago, and now services a whole bunch of users with complex chroot
> directories structure. Maybe I'll replace bftp with something else
> anyway. The only strange thing for me that I believed that
> hosts.deny/allow files are system-wide and I can rely on them, but it's
> not so.
> 
> Sergey
> 
> 
> 

hosts.allow & hosts.deny is only effective on programs that implement tcp_wrappers.

Glenn