Re: TCP Wrappers

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: Timmy Siu <timmy(dot)siu(at)aol(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: TCP Wrappers
Date: 2019-10-09 22:39:11
Message-ID: CAEfWYyyFZEYo9pEBPbVB7PRmdacxj1=+ah4h4Gb0N2U2F8-Zkw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:56 PM Timmy Siu <timmy(dot)siu(at)aol(dot)com> wrote:

> Dear all postgresql developers,
>
> I have tested postgres v11 against TCP Wrappers but it does not respond
> to TCP wrappers port blocking.
>
> May I suggest the community to have postgres to work with TCP wrappers.??
> Its security will be better.
>
>
The last stable release of TCP Wrappers was a couple decades ago. It's
deprecated in RHEL7 and removed in RHEL8. I'm not a PG core member or
anything but rather doubt that's an area where the developers will want to
expend effort.

Cheers,
Steve

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