tcp_wrappers/try-from.8

   1 .TH TRY-FROM 8 "21th June 1997" Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
   2 .SH NAME
   3 try-from \- test program for the tcp_wrapper
   4 .SH SYNOPSIS
   5 .B try-from
   6 .SH DESCRIPTION
   7 The
   8 .B try-from
   9 command can be called via a remote shell command to find out
  10 if the hostname and address are properly recognized
  11 by the
  12 .B tcp_wrapper
  13 library, if username lookup works, and (SysV only) if the TLI
  14 on top of IP heuristics work. Diagnostics are reported through
  15 .BR syslog (3)
  16 and redirected to stderr.
  17
  18 Example:
  19
  20 rsh host /some/where/try-from
  21
  22 .SH SEE ALSO
  23 .BR hosts_access (5),
  24 .BR hosts_options (5),
  25 .BR tcpd (8)
  26 .SH AUTHOR
  27 Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
  28