Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Fri Mar 21 22:16:31 UTC 2014


On 03/21/2014 02:05 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 06:34:22PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> >I wonder whether it wouldn't be time to say goodbye to tcpwrappers in
>> >Fedora. There has been a request in systemd upstream to disable support
> I talked to some of the RHEL planning people, and they're okay
> with marking it deprecated in RHEL7. That allays some of my concerns about
> downstream enterprise needs -- although there was also the comment that the
> libwrap2 approach would be a good one.
>
> I'm also collecting some feedback from CentOS users. I'll wait to report on
> that for a little bit, but I think in general the majority response is okay
> with it, with a significantly vocal "why change things that work?"

In other words you are telling us that now to get something implemented 
or removed in Fedora we have to not only deal with our usual politics 
and bureaucracy but also all the downstream distribution to us as well...

JBG


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