On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:06:22PM -0600, Dirk Petry wrote:
> Hi,
> in your mail from 3 Oct 2000 you write:
>
> >check /etc/hosts.allow on the server side.
> >
> >On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:39:51PM -0400, Thomas Keller wrote:
> >> Good Afternoon,
> >> I have a maching running Best Linux 2000 on it and when I try to ssh into
> >> it, I get a ssh_eschange_identification: Connection closed message. I have
> >> another box which everything works fine on and I have the same configuration.
> >> I am running openssh_2.1.
> >>
>
> Why would an entry in hosts.allow influence ssh?
you can compile sshd with tcpwrapper support.
> Is ssh also an inet service?
even this is possible. but libwrap does not depend on /etc/inetd.conf
> If so, which entry
> do I have to make in hosts.allow in order to
> permit ssh logins?
it depends on the compile time options for sshd.
you have to use
sshd : ALL@ALL : ALLOW
or something similar.
