On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:55:37PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: :If sshd has been compiled with libwrap support (Debian's has) it will use :hosts.allow and hosts.deny . I think the default hosts.deny in Debian is :now 'ALL: PARANOID', at least that was the setting when I installed :Debian (in September). That'd 'splain it. In mine ALL: PARANOID is commented out <shrug> -Jon