Re: gnome from rh7.3 with afs

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
> 
> On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 16:40, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
> 
>>I have just gone through the same trouble. What you might be missing is 
>>that if you are using tcpwrappers (ie have active hosts.allow/deny 
>>files) you need to give orbit access to the right machines. 
>>Unfortunately nobody seems to know the right daemon name for orbit so I 
>>am using ALL : ALL which of course disables hosts.allow completely but 
>>makes gconf work.
>>
> 
> 	The problem is - that I have no idea where the 'daemon name' comes
> from. How is it created ? is this a Unix wide standard 'stdmnnme ()'
> syscall ? or is it a 'known port' mapping table somewhere
> 
> 	Ultimately a known port approach cannot work with ORBit, since it's per
> user and the user can't steal a known port - otherwise no other user
> could use it ;-) [ that is unless, we had some sort of badly performing
> muxing proxy solution ].
> 


Unfortunately, I don't understand the mechanics of tcpwrapper to answer 
your question. (If I did I probably could have figured out the answer.) 
In any case most Linux distributions seem to come with tcpwrapper 
enabled. The only information I have is in the manual pages: 
hosts_access(5), hosts_options(5)

Andreas

 



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