There's also the AllowHosts and DenyHosts directives. Not as slick as tcp
wrappers, but it saves ya a recompile.
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Gregor Mosheh
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Anthony T Moran wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > Do you kmown if there is a way to limite the access to a machine? There is
> > a way to configure which users can access a machine using ssh?
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> > Thanks in advance,
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> Hi.
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> Best way to do this is to use TCP Wrappers.
> ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html
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> Unfortunately, you need to afair, need to compile this into ssh (?)
> See the FAQ's etc.
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> In any case though, if you have felt it necessary to use ssh in the first
> place, then you definitely should use TCP Wrappers to limit and
> monitor access to services on your machine/s as well. Good thing about
> using ssh with TCP Wrappers is that it provides some basic logging of
> incoming ssh usage on your machine, unless you are using the commercial
> version of ssh which does that for you.
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> Have fun, Tony
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