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Re: Disabling access to SSH




Mark Maas <mark@menem.mine.nu> wrote on 16.11.2004 08:50:57:

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> Hi All,
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> I'm trying to restrict access to my ssh server from the outside to
> allow only two IP adresses and the internal lan ofcourse.
> And deny access to everyone else.
>
> People are trying the guess a username and password tactic a little
> too much to my liking...
>
> Do I use hosts.deny, hosts.allow for this? If so, which one takes
> precedence?

I use iptables, so that I do not have to worry about such things.
just allow the two addresses and drop all others...

If you like to use hosts.deny and hosts.allow, I believe that hosts.deny overrules hosts.allow. This is at least, how I experienced the two configs.

HTH,
Andy

> Thanks,
> Mark
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