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Re: hosts.allow/hosts.deny question



On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:05:19AM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> You're denying everyone and allowing no one.  There's a good reason you
> can't connect ;).  In /etc/hosts.allow, you could put:

no he is not, true there is nothing in hosts.allow, but all he has in
hosts.deny is ALL: PARANOID which is debian default, this does NOT
mean deny all, it means deny anyone whose hostname != ip-address and
ip-address != hostname.  thats all.  

> ALL: LOCAL

this won't solve the problem i don't think.

> However, you shouldn't be running sshd from inetd -- it's too slow.  If
> you aren't running ssh from inetd, then you're problem is elsewhere.
> Maybe check /etc/ssh/*_config ?

no sshd even when run as a daemon checks hosts.{allow,deny} on its
own.  its compiled with tcpwrappers. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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