Re: gconf & tcpwrappers

["Robert A. Knop Jr." <robert a knop vanderbilt edu>]

> On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 22:22, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
> > What is the "key" that should be used in hosts.allow for gconfd?  (Or is
> > it for ORBit in general?)
> 
> 	I don't understand what you mean by key; ORBit2 picks a random port at
> both client and server, so it's not possible to filter by port number
> I'm afraid [ if that's what you want ].
> 
> 	Of course, this could be changed in ORBit2 if you re-build the gconf
> client library to always fork gconfd with
> --ORBIIOPIPSock=<some-defined-port>.
> 
> 	Perhaps I didn't understand the question,

Hi -- it's not port filtering, it's TCP Wrappers-- what goes in
hosts.allow and hosts.deny.  I have to admit that I don't understand
what TCP Wrappers does at the low level, but I do know that it uses some
sort of "application name" to decide what it should and should not
filter.  In many cases (e.g. "sshd" or "in.ftpd") this is obvious, but
in some other cases it isn't, and you have to to find it in
documentation (e.g. "sshfwd-X11").  I don't know how an application
which uses TCP Wrappers decides which string it uses.  Mostly, I just
wanted to find out what string was neede for ORBit and/or gconfd.  (Note
that I'm running gconf 0.12 and ORBit 0.5 as a part of RedHat 7.3.)

-Rob