Re: Tightening up ssh

2006-03-26 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hi Graham, Sunday, March 26, 2006, 9:52:11 PM, you wrote about: Does this mean that there is a way to run ssh, but only allow certain users to use it. My default seems to have been that if someone has a username and password they can access ssh (except root as PermitRootLogin no is the

Re: Tightening up ssh

2006-03-26 Thread Kelly D. Grills
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:52:11AM -0800, Graham North wrote: Does this mean that there is a way to run ssh, but only allow certain users to use it. My default seems to have been that if someone has a username and password they can access ssh (except root as PermitRootLogin no is the

Re: Tightening up ssh

2006-03-26 Thread Graham North
Hi Daniel Thank you! If I read the manpage correctly, invoking AllowUsers automatically changes the default behaviour and restricts access to only those users specificied. That fits my needs exactly. (or at least my current perceived needs :--)) Cheers, Graham/ Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hi

RE: Tightening up ssh

2006-03-26 Thread fbsd_user
The fact of life is there is no way to stop ssh logon attacks as long as you have port 22 open to the public internet. You all ready see ssh doing its job correctly by not allowing unauthorized logons. Review the questions archives, this subject has been beat to death the last 3 weeks. There

Re: Tightening up ssh

2006-03-26 Thread Graham North
Thank youi. G/ fbsd_user wrote: The fact of life is there is no way to stop ssh logon attacks as long as you have port 22 open to the public internet. You all ready see ssh doing its job correctly by not allowing unauthorized logons. Review the questions archives, this subject has been beat