Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Lindsay Allen
Well, now I know why ALL: ALL in hosts.deny stopped things. It turns out that hosts.allow does not allow "ALL: my.ip.address" but is happy with "ALL: 203.x.y.z" or even "ALL: 203.x.y." There is a note about this regarding the portmapper but I had not realised that the portmapper is involved. T

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:51:50AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > These are by no means irrelevant to sshd, even if it is not run from > inetd. Read the man page for sshd, in which you'll see that it can be > build with direct support for tcp_wrappers. I

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question

2000-08-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:05:19AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: > You're denying everyone and allowing no one. There's a good reason you > can't connect ;). In /etc/hosts.allow, you could put: no he is not, true there is nothing in hosts.allow, but all he has in hosts.deny is ALL: PARANOID whic

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- These are by no means irrelevant to sshd, even if it is not run from inetd. Read the man page for sshd, in which you'll see that it can be build with direct support for tcp_wrappers. If it is (I don't know what the configure options in the Debian build are, but

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 09:48:13PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > Hello world, > > I have a hosts_access problem. > > hosts.deny has the line > ALL:ALL > > This stops me logging in with ssh. The problem is that if I put a line in > hosts.allow like > sshd: my.ip.address > the rule does not

hosts.allow/hosts.deny question (2)

2000-08-07 Thread Lindsay Allen
Hello world, I have a hosts_access problem. hosts.deny has the line ALL:ALL This stops me logging in with ssh. The problem is that if I put a line in hosts.allow like sshd: my.ip.address the rule does not match because sshd does not feature in inetd.conf. What have I missed? Lindsay --

Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question

2000-08-07 Thread Eric G . Miller
You're denying everyone and allowing no one. There's a good reason you can't connect ;). In /etc/hosts.allow, you could put: ALL: LOCAL However, you shouldn't be running sshd from inetd -- it's too slow. If you aren't running ssh from inetd, then you're problem is elsewhere. Maybe check /etc/s

hosts.allow/hosts.deny question

2000-08-06 Thread Raphael Crawford-Marks
I posted a while back about not being able to establish telnet,ssh or smtp connections from outside my LAN to my box running Potato. This problem appeared rather suddenly after having run fine for several months. Since then a friend of mine in a different state told me that he could connect via t