On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:00:12AM -0400, brownh wrote: > David Jardine <da...@jardine.de> writes: > > > Have you got /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny configured to allow > > access from outside your local network? > > David, good question. I had understood /etc/hosts.allow only as a way > to define a selection, and so left it empty for the server, for it > should allow any host to access. > > However, I now discover that I have ALL: LOCAL on the client > machine. No idea why I put it there. I fear that this might in fact > prevent the kind of non-local ssh connections that I'm having > difficulties with. Is that so?
That ALL: LOCAL entry is there by default. I don't know much about this myself, but man hosts.allow will give you all the details you want. Cheers, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100911142451.ga2...@gennes.augarten
