hackers celebrate this day: openssh drops security! was: Re: heads up: tcpwrappers support going away

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Thu Apr 24 09:46:07 EST 2014


On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Cedric Blancher wrote:

> Hackers will celebrate this day - openssh drops security.
> Time to move on to ssh.com's ssh variant.

good luck with that
https://answers.ssh.com/questions/398/support-for-tcp-wrappers

> Seriously - the discussion is stupid: If tcpwrappers support gets
> removed than a replacement is required which is executed at the same
> location and not much later in the code.

How about a packet filter? That way no code gets executed at all...

-d


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