IPv6 hosts allow|deny

[Dave Dykstra]

Even though rsync maintenance isn't as bad as wget's, the maintainers
are all VERY part time so that is a big part of the problem.  Most of us
don't have ipv6 systems to test things on.  Can you vouch for the quality
of the patch?  I was able to get it with

    wget --passive ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/misc/rsync-2_5_5-v6auth-20021016.patch.gz

and it looks quite extensive.

- Dave

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:53:13AM +0100, Bert Vermeulen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know what the status is of Hideaki Yoshifuji's IPv6 ACL patch?
> He's submitted this twice now, and that was 3 months ago. Judging by the
> comments made when this was submitted, it's apparently not understood how
> important this is.
> 
> - if you IPv6 on your rsync server, you can not secure it with "hosts
>   allow".
> 
> - if you enable IPv6 on an rsync server that's secured with "hosts deny" to
>   keep certain hosts out, well, they can get in again -- if they also have
>   IPv6.
> 
> Please, can this patch be merged into the next release? This is very
> important! It is NOT new functionality, it's a security fix.
> 
> 
> Bert Vermeulen
> bert at biot.com