Access control for Xvnc using TCP wrappers

Nick Kay nick "at" nexnix.co.uk
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:52:48 +0000


>>Hello,
>>
>>In the list archives I notice there was a discussion of implementing
>>access control for Xvnc with the tcp wrapper library.  I have now
>>implemented this for 3.3.2r2.  You will need to have tcpd.h and
>>libwrap already installed.  I realize the Imakefile changes are not
>>perfect -- you can omit the change to Xvnc/programs/Xserver/Imakefile
>>and compile in Xvnc/programs/Xserver with
>>
>>make EXTRA_LIBRARIES='-L/where/ever -lwrap'
>>
>>if you have libwrap installed in a non-system directory.
>>
>>You will need to specify _numeric_ IP addresses in
>>/etc/hosts.{allow,deny}, e.g. as follows

That's great!  
A similar implementation for NT would be even greater though.   ;>

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