[Dovecot] TCP wrappers patch

Timo Sirainen
Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:16:28 -0000

I finally started looking into how to use libwrap, and even got the code
working:

http://dovecot.org/patches/1.0/tcp-wrappers.patch

However once everything was done, I realized it can't work that way
because login processes are normally chrooted. So if you want TCP
wrappers and don't care that much about the security given by chrooting,
you could disable it and use the above patch. Alternatively you could
just make sure that the hosts.allow/deny files are always copied inside
the chroot.

I think I'll just forget about TCP wrappers for now, and implement it in
Dovecot 2.0 as some separate non-chrooted process.
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