Tom

Tom Hendrickx wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was wondering something about the hosts.allow file.
> I have for example the following line inserted:
> ALL: 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.255
> 
> but I'm still able to ssh to the machine from other addresses inside 
> the 192.168.1.0/24 network..
> Shouldn't this file take care of this or should it also be specified in 
> shorewall? But in that case I don't see the point of having the 
> hosts.allow & hosts.deny file.

This has to be compiled in the application, so if your ssh daemon does 
not have libwrap compiled in then it does not matter what you write to 
your hosts.allow/deny files.

If you want to be sure, use shorewall rules for this purpose

cheers

Erich



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