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updated documentation to reflect the behavior of the 'hosts_deny' opt…
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mikaku committed Jan 27, 2021
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This is a comma delimited set of IP addresses which will be forced to do authentication. There is the special keyword called \fIall\fP that can be used to deny all IP addresses.
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The access control uses the same approach as in the TCP-Wrappers; the search stops at the first match:
The access control uses a similar approach as in the TCP-Wrappers; the search stops at the first match:
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- Access will be granted when an IP address matches an entry in the \fBhosts_allow\fP list.
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- Otherwise, access will be denied when an IP address matches an entry in the \fBhosts_deny\fP list.
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- Otherwise, access will be granted.
- Otherwise, access will be denied (if not defined it will deny all hosts).
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Default value:
Default value: \fIall\fP
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