>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sullivan <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Michael> I've been reading over the hosts.deny man page to get Michael> some ideas, but I'm unclear on how to implement them. I Michael> know what I want to do, but I don't know how to do it. I Michael> want to allow all connections from my five users, those Michael> being acsacx, amy, michael, wayne and zack, unless those Michael> requests come from 211.182.241.* These acceptable Michael> accounts will likely only log in through ssh. I want to Michael> deny 211.182.241.* unconditonally. Can anyone give me an Michael> example of a hosts.allow/hosts.deny setup that would do Michael> this? Tackle the two issues separately. Block the IP address as suggested in hosts.deny. The edit sshd_config and specifically list those users who are allowed to connect to the system with the AllowUsers keyword (check the man page for sshd_config).) -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire