hosts.allow ?

[Gerard Seibert]

Chris Maness wrote:

> Daniel A. wrote:
> > On 3/19/06, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
> >> My denyhost script is doing it's job by adding:
> >>
> >> sshd: 62.149.232.105 : deny
> >>
> >> to the hosts.allow file, but I see that this host is still making
> >> attempts to get into my box.  Is there a cron job or something
> >> that has to re-read the hosts.allow file before it the IP will be
> >> blocked? _______________________________________________
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> > Offtopic, but
> > How did you set up denyhosts? Daemon? Cron?
>
> p.s.
>
> OK, I was able to get to work by just starting out with a blank
> hosts.allow.  Everything is allowed by default, so when denyhosts
> adds a deny line to the file, it will deny access to that host.
>
> Also, sshd can't be started in rc.conf, it has to be started in
> inetd.conf.  Make sure you do a /etc/rc.d/inetd restart after you
> make changes.

Just out of curiosity, why can 'sshd' not be started from the 
'/etc/rc.conf' file?

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