sshd security

Neo-Vortex root at Neo-Vortex.Ath.Cx
Sun Sep 19 05:48:07 PDT 2004



On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Terry wrote:

> I had the same problem so i setup up hosts.allow to only allow access
> from certain ips i require
> This has the affect of killing the connection from any other ip befor
> gettign to any login prompt
> example below
> sshd : localhost : allow
> sshd : 192.168.2. : allow
> sshd : 82.41.115.213 :allow
> sshd : 216.123.248.219 : allow  <-- public ip i wish to allow of course
> i have changed it
> sshd : all : deny
>
> This then shows in log instead of failed login attempts
>
> dot.blah.co.uk refused connections:
> Sep 17 22:11:55 dlt sshd[35669]: refused connect from usen-219x113x213x21.ap-US.usen.ad.jp (219.113.213.21)

you could always just use ipf/ipfw if the log messages are annoying you...

> Regards Terry


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