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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: HEADSUP: OpenSSH 6.7 drops tcpwrapper support
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2510188048.20140819230411@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140818115352.GC2280@calimero.vinschen.de>

Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> Starting with the next OpenSSH version 6.7, which will be released soon,
> upstream removed support for tcp_wrappers/libwrap from the sources.

> While that's bad from a compatibility point of view, the upstream
> developers are adamant about this change for security reasons.

> So, if you configured /etc/hosts.allow and/or /etc/hosts.deny files in
> your Cygwin installation to block certain connections to your sshd
> service, you will have to find other means to do that ASAP:

> - Utilize the sshd_config Match rule.

> - Utilize your firewall.

Am I correct that this will only affect SSHD access control mechanics?
Not the socket redirection?


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 19.08.2014, <23:03>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-19 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-18 11:53 Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-19 18:23 ` D. Boland
2014-08-19 19:10   ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-19 19:05 ` Andrey Repin [this message]

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