hosts.allow wildcards for login.conf

[Andy Farkas]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Are-Harald Brenne wrote:

> I want to restrict ftp logins to computers on the 10.10. - network.
>
> >From the login.access manpage:
>
>      host.allow       list  List of remote host wildcards from
>   		            which users in the class may access.
>
> How does this wildcard thing work? I tried 10.10., 10.10 and 10.10.0.0/16.
>

Which manpage says that?

/etc/hosts.allow is your friend:

# Provide a small amount of protection for ftpd
ftpd : localhost : allow
#ftpd : .nice.guy.example.com : allow
#ftpd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny
ftpd : 10.10.0.0/255.255.0.0 : allow
ftpd : ALL : deny

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
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