[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping tcp_wrapper support

[Ionut Biru]

On 07/16/2011 08:06 PM, Peggy Wilkins wrote:
> I am an end user who is very unhappy about the removal of this option.
>   I didn't even know dropping tcp_wrappers was under consideration; had
> I known that I would have spoken up with my vote against removing
> support.
>
> The annoucement suggests that a major reason for dropping support is
> that it is "confusing" to end users.  An easy solution to that is to
> make a default hosts.allow file that says "ALL : ALL : ALLOW"  out of
> the box.  Then those of use wanting to simply restrict access (useful
> in many scenarios) can change that default as needed.
>

i read the news entry couples of times and I don't get it how you reach 
this conclusion. Really, this is not the reason and I found your comment 
hilarious.

> IMO for users who want to use this feature, the burden is on the end
> user to find which services support tcp wrappers and which don't.  A
> default "allow" policy makes this simple.
>

users who want this feature can as well recompile the desire services 
with this support.

> Surely I'm not the only tcp wrappers user out there.  I will sorely
> miss this option and strongly wish it to remain.


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Ionuț