Hi, first of all try "ssh -v home.machine.edu" from work.machine.edu. Ssh will then give you more information about what's going on.
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Drew> I have sshd running, which I believe is responsible for handling incoming Drew> telnet connections. I want to be able to telnet into my machine from Drew> certain defined addresses (eg from home). Drew> Drew> I've added what I thought were the appropriate entries in /etc/hosts.allow: Drew> ALL: home.machine.edu work.machine.edu The companion is /etc/hosts.deny which probably should contain "ALL: ALL" (which is then relaxed via hosts.allow). Drew> I also tried specifying Drew> AllowHosts home.machine.edu work.machine.edu Drew> in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I'm using "AllowHosts *.machine.edu", trusting the other machines on the network. Drew> I even added Drew> sshd: ALL Drew> for good measure, as mentioned in the ssh docs. Where? In hosts.allow? I do have "sendmail: all" in there (which is dumb) but "sshd: ALL" shouldn't be needed. Drew> But nothing helps! Whenever I attempt to telnet in from work.machine (not Drew> it's real name), I get: Drew> Connected to strider [my machine]. Drew> Debian GNU/Linux potato strider Drew> login: permission denied Drew> Terminated As others have pointed out, this is not an ssh problem. The configuration of the /etc/hosts.* file should allow you to telnet to your machine. But then, you _should'nt_ use telnet. Drew> No permission! Even though hosts.allow is set explicitly (and I even Drew> removed hosts.deny for good measure). Drew> Can anyone offer any better suggestions? Downgrade back to slink? Try 'ssh -v' and let us know what ssh is unhappy about. Have you looked into /etc/hosts.equiv (bad) and /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv (good)? -tom
