Restore TCP wrappers support

Support for TCP wrappers was dropped in OpenSSH 6.7.  See this message
and thread:

  https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2014-April/032497.html

It is true that this reduces preauth attack surface in sshd.  On the
other hand, this support seems to be quite widely used, and abruptly
dropping it (from the perspective of users who don't read
openssh-unix-dev) could easily cause more serious problems in practice.

It's not entirely clear what the right long-term answer for Debian is,
but it at least probably doesn't involve dropping this feature shortly
before a freeze.

Forwarded: not-needed
Last-Update: 2014-10-07

Patch-Name: restore-tcp-wrappers.patch

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sshd.8 b/sshd.8
index 3c53f7cd6..fc2154c45 100644
--- a/sshd.8
+++ b/sshd.8
@@ -851,6 +851,12 @@ the user's home directory becomes accessible.
 This file should be writable only by the user, and need not be
 readable by anyone else.
 .Pp
+.It Pa /etc/hosts.allow
+.It Pa /etc/hosts.deny
+Access controls that should be enforced by tcp-wrappers are defined here.
+Further details are described in
+.Xr hosts_access 5 .
+.Pp
 .It Pa /etc/hosts.equiv
 This file is for host-based authentication (see
 .Xr ssh 1 ) .
@@ -954,6 +960,7 @@ The content of this file is not sensitive; it can be world-readable.
 .Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
 .Xr ssh-keyscan 1 ,
 .Xr chroot 2 ,
+.Xr hosts_access 5 ,
 .Xr login.conf 5 ,
 .Xr moduli 5 ,
 .Xr sshd_config 5 ,