Re: [Nagios-devel] Re: Security Concerns about the nsca daemon

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Re: Security Concerns about the nsca daemon

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Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:48:51PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
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>>I'm having a headache about using nsca to receive passive service
>>checks.
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> And while we're at it, nsca should use tcp-wrappers itself so that it
> can be tcp wrapped without having to add inetd to possible attack
> vectors.
>

Nopes. I could implement some basic tcp-wrappers-like thing in the nsca
core, but I won't make it use tcp-wrappers. It'd be much better to do
some simple firewalling anyway.

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