Phill O'Flynn wrote:

> I am running a fedora server and currently using hosts.allow to
> only allow ssh accesses from specific ip addresses. I did this because I was 
> getting
> a lot of idiots from eastern Europe and Russia tring to crack my server.
> 
> This has been okĀ  but now is prooving to be too restrictive. Can I get the
> server to force certificate based logins only?? If so how do I do it?? Is 
> this the
> best approach anyway??

Also have a look at pam_abl:

    http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl

Erik
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