How To Install tcp_wrappers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcp_wrappers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is tcp_wrappers.x86_64
The tcp_wrappers package provides small daemon programs which can monitor and filter incoming requests for systat, finger, FTP, telnet, rlogin, rsh, exec, tftp, talk and other network services. Install the tcp_wrappers program if you need a security tool for filtering incoming network services requests. This version also supports IPv6.
We can use yum to install tcp_wrappers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcp_wrappers.x86_64.
Install tcp_wrappers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install tcp_wrappers.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tcp_wrappers.x86_64
How To Uninstall tcp_wrappers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the tcp_wrappers.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove tcp_wrappers.x86_64
tcp_wrappers.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/sbin/safe_finger
/usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/tcpdmatch
/usr/sbin/try-from
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/BLURB
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/Banners.Makefile
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/DISCLAIMER
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/README
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/README.IRIX
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/README.NIS
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/README.ipv6
/usr/share/doc/tcp_wrappers-7.6/README.ipv6.2
/usr/share/man/man8/safe_finger.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tcpd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tcpdmatch.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/try-from.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tcp_wrappers.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.