Hello all!
Even though I just have dial-up access to the net, I put "ALL: ALL" in my
/etc/hosts.deny file to keep intruding processes out. However, this also
keeps me from doing an rlogin or fetchmail from my machine back to my machine.
Since I want to do this once in a while, I am looking for a way to loopback to
this host and allow access. I have tried "ALL: ALL" in hosts.deny and then
"ALL: LOCAL" in hosts.allow, but that doesn't help. Neither does "ALL:
localhost <hostname> <hostname>.<domainname>" in the hosts.allow file. The
only thing that seems to work for letting rlogin and fecthmail back to this
host work is if I remove "ALL: ALL" from /etc/hosts.deny.
Anyone have any suggestions for entries to put in those files to achieve at
least remedial security for when I'm connected to the net, but still allow
localhost net access to work?
-Michael
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