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On Monday 03 February 2003 01:22, Jesse Kline wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have set my firewall to port forward ssh port 22 to my main machine
> on my network. Today my firewall reported that someone was getting
> curious about port 22. To add a little extra security I figured I should
> make sure that the IP address in question was denied. Will adding the IP
> to /etc/hosts.deny make any difference to sshd, or do I have to use
> another file?
a firewall rule is the best idea (as others have noted), but if you wish to
simply block ssh access, add something like this to your sshd_conf file:
DenyUsers *@<ipaddr>
and restart sshd.
btw, am i the only one who finds it annoying that sshd_conf isn't sshd.conf?
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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