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    AO Curmudgeon rcgreen's Avatar
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    ssh and ip addresses

    If I want to run an ssh server, and want to limit the addresses
    who can access the server, where is this configured? Is it in
    the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files? This is on a
    slackware linux box.
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    Yes, you simply configure tcp wrappers via the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. The syntax is very simple.

    The typical setup is to deny access to everyone listed in the /etc/hosts.deny file. (This example shows both ssh1 and ssh2.)
    sshd1: ALL
    sshd2: ALL
    sshdfwd-X11 : ALL

    or simply
    ALL: ALL

    And then allow access only to trusted clients in the /etc/hosts.allow:
    sshd1 : trusted_client_IP_or_hostname
    sshd2 : .ssh.com foo.bar.fi
    sshdfwd-X11 : .ssh.com foo.bar.fi

    Based on the /etc/hosts.allow file above, users coming from any host in the ssh.com domain or from the host foo.bar.fi are allowed to access services.

    Note that wrappers work for not just ssh, but any tcp service that is running and accepting connections. So be sure that you understand the syntax in that it's daemon : host. This means that if you do something like ALL : ALL it means all tcp services are impacted (well, all local INET services defined by tcpd), not just ssh.
    Last edited by thehorse13; December 31st, 2006 at 02:34 AM.
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