Description of problem: rpc.statd and tcp_wrappers support. The man page says that rpc.statd is compiled with tcp_wrapper support but looking at the source rpm it doesn't look like it is - there's a change log dated 2000 saying tcp_wrapper support was disabled. Running strings -f `which rpc.statd` | grep "wrap" strings -f `which rpc.statd` | grep "host" doesn't show any sign that tcp_wrappers support is compiled in. My questions is; is it supported? Is this deliberate and what was the reason if so? Cheers, Matt. RHE3, Fedora Core 6 How reproducible: Expected results: TCP Wrapper support compiled in.
I have further tested this between systems: rpc.statd does not use tcp_wrappers as described in the man page. Further, portmap does not respect the tcp_wrappers configuration file fully - even when configured not to allow local connections to the portmapper it still does. Expected result: portmap should obey tcp_wrapper deny all directive.
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