On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:42:07PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 25 Jul 2006, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As I understand it, you can either enter IP addresses or hosts into
> > hosts.allow to access services {I've got ALL:ALL in hosts.deny}
> > 
> > So
> > 
> > sshd:203.1.1.1
> 
> You can also restrict it in sshd.config
> 
>   AllowUsers  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> which might be simpler

Yes, definitely worth mentioning as you can restrict to
certain users.

To me /etc/hosts.allow is easier as it includes all services.
And it protects you from vulnerability bugs in sshd to an extent.

Matt

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