On Wednesday 27 November 2002 01:02 pm, you wrote: > engage wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:26:44PM -0700 : > > That was my problem. I simply executed msec 3 from the CLI and that > > resolved this issue. But, it was my understanding from the installation > > instructions that msec 4 was a good choice if you are going to run > > servers. I didn't expect it to prevent access to the servers! What good > > is having that security level if no clients can access the servers? I'm > > glad I didn't try level 5! > > Because you are are supposed to specifically allow which services you > want people to connect to in the hosts.deny file. I suggest that you > read up on tcp wrappers. The system reads in hosts.deny, but allows you > to override that with hosts.allow. > > hosts.deny > ALL:ALL > > hosts.allow > httpd:ALL > sshd:192.168.1. > > Then the only two services that people can connect to are httpd and > sshd. You allow anyone to connect to httpd, but only people on the > local lan to connect to sshd. 'man hosts_access' for more information. > Instead of "192.168.1.", I could have also done > "192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0". > > Blue skies... Todd
I tried that, it didn't work - even after a network restart and then I tried a reboot - hosts.allow still didn't overide hosts.deny.
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