Re: sshd: entries in hosts.deny

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:56:27AM -0400, Rob Munsch wrote:
> As was suggested to me, i did an strace.
> No attempt is made to check hosts.allow or hosts.deny.
> Since this is the version quoted above, and ldd gives me the same
> results, and it still doesn't try to check hosts.anything - is there a
> config file option, or should i rip it out and reinstall..?

I'd file a bug through the Debian bug tracking system at this point,
since there seems to be a problem with the way the Debian maintainer
built the package.  You can do that with "reportbug", or check
http://bugs.debian.org/ for more information.

As a workaround in the meantime, installing it from source might be an
option worth pursuing.  If you're comfortable building it from scratch
using the upstream (www.openssh.org) source tarball, that's fine.
Otherwise, the Debian way would be something like:

  $ sudo apt-get build-dep openssh
  $ apt-get source openssh
  $ cd openssh-4.3whatever
  $ vi debian/rules
  $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot

What's really weird here is that when I look in debian/rules for
the 4.3p2-5 package, it *does* have --with-tcp-wrappers in a
configure command.  (Although I don't have all the build-deps installed
at the moment to actually build it.)  So whatever's going on, it's
awfully strange and subtle.  Maybe the Debian maintainer can figure it
out.