Re: Re[2]: [cobalt-security] denying access

[Gossi The Dog <gossi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Florian Effenberger wrote:

> Hi Gossi,
> 
> >> I don't want that they can't establish ANY connection to us.
> 
> > Eh?
> > Is that do, or don't?
> > Otherwise, either a firewall, or ipchains for Linux.
> 
> Ooops... sorry :) I meant
> "I don't want that they can establish ANY connection to us."
> 
> Firewall is not possible at the moment. Isn't there a file called
> /etc/hosts.deny ?

Yes.  However, this only works for certain applications compiled with tcp
wrapper support. With Cobalts, this is roughly Qpopper and proftpd.

You could then go on and alter things like the sendmail config files,
apache conf file etc, but it'd take some time to get it all set up.