Re: [PLUG] Xvnc login howto

[Eugene Smiley <eugene@esmiley.net>]

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Eugene Smiley wrote:
> Michael F. Robbins wrote:
>>Check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny.  As you said, access to
>>localhost works fine, so you might just be blocking other hosts.
>
> It would seem that in spite of setting host.allow to "ALL:192.168.1."
> that Mandrakes default host.deny was overriding it since it had an
> EXCEPT clause. ("ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.:DENY") once I changed it to
> "ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127., 192.168.1.:DENY" everything worked.
>
> Now, I am finding that Mandrake is automatically modifying host.deny
> to append "ALL:ALL EXCEPT 127.:DENY". Anyone know where this is coming
> from so that I can shut it off?

I managed to track it down to a Mandrake security application called
msec. When I installed Mandrake it gave a description of the security
levels that was lacking on details, but when I set the level to its
lowest (poor) the appends to host.deny stopped.



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