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Description of problem:

As TCP wrappers is dropped from RHEL8, we can remove the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/host.deny from setup RPM

# rpm -ql setup-2.12.2-1.el8.noarch
...
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny


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going to close this as a DUPLICATE of:

Bug 1663556 - /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files contain extremely inaccurate information

Files /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny will get removed with release of RHEL-8.1:

http://pkgs.devel.redhat.com/cgit/rpms/setup/commit/?h=rhel-8.1.0&id=fce4cb7ec5f444548c52655e94b32997cf1e768a


There is also kbase article pointing to the above BZ:

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3935901 [Does /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny have any use whatsoever in RHEL 8?]


will attach the customer case to Bug 1663556.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1663556 ***