TCP Wrappers Release Notes

Installation Information

Installing TCP Wrappers

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Installing TCP Wrappers

TCP Wrappers is available as a web release on HP-UX 11i platform from

HP’s software depot at www.software.hp.com. After downloading the

software package, use the swinstall command to install the package on

your system. Detailed information on how to conﬁgure and use TCP

Wrappers can be found in the respective man pages.

Install the web upgrade as per the following steps:

1. Run the following command on the command line.

swinstall -s <destination path>

Where <destination path> is the absolute path where you

downloaded the TCP Wrappers web upgrade depot to.

A GUI screen appears.

2. Select the TCP Wrappers product in the GUI screen.

3. Go to Action menu and choose Install option.

TCP Wrappers on HP-UX 11i is now available for your use.

This version of TCP Wrappers uses a conﬁguration ﬁle, /etc/tcpd.conf

to conﬁgure the tcpd wrappers daemon. It also uses the access control

ﬁles, /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to enforce access control

in the tcpd daemon. A sample of these ﬁles are provided in the

/usr/newconfig/etc directory. You can edit these ﬁles as per your

requirements and copy them to the /etc directory.