[Samba] Hosts files

[Kerns, Mike]

Hiya!

Where hosts does local IP to name translation, the hosts.deny and
hosts.allow will let you fine tune who is allowed or denied access to your
server.  There are interactions between the two files that have security
risks, I'd advise you to print out the man page on them so you can annotate
what they say to really get the gist of the control they give you.  IIRC,
the O'Reilly/Spafford _UNIX Security_ book has more details on the
interaction and risks, but I don't have my copy in front of me so I can't
quote chapter & verse.

HTH/HAND,

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stewart [mailto:mike at powys-training.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:41 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Hosts files


Hi, I have put entries into the "hosts" file for all the machines which need
to connect to our Samba server.  Everything seems to be working correctly
but I'm curious.... can anyone tell me what the other files "hosts.deny" and
"hosts.allow" are for.

Thanks

Mike