David Jardine <[email protected]> writes: > That ALL: LOCAL entry is there by default. I don't know much about > this myself, but
That would explain its presence on my lenny box, but my newly installed sqeeze box has nothing uncommented in that file. So I guess squeeze changed the default. >From the manual, ALL:LOCAL in hosts.allow would admit connections with local user accounts, and I get the sense that it overrides the default ALL:ALL, which would exclude access from hosts not on the LOCAL LAN. I don't expect to use this box as a server for hosts outside my LAN. However, I don't see this as being relevant to my problem, for it is not my (client) lenny machine that has a problem, but when lenny tries to gain ssh access to the server, squeeze, and for this server, the hosts.allow file is empty and so is open to the world. I did comment the ALL:LOCAL on the lenny box, and tried to access it by ssh from the squeeze box (the opposite direction to that I raised in my question), but permission denied here as well. So my problem is broader than just the configuration of one box. Just to be sure, a sanity check: from the account [email protected] on one box I am trying to ssh to the account [email protected], on a different box on the LAN. I can ssh from one user account to another on the LAN, but can't ssh between them via my provider's server by appending the domain name to the user account name: $ ssh [email protected] Haines -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
