On Aug 4, 2004 at 11:03, Matt Morgan in a soothing rage wrote: [...] >So use hosts.allow instead, and specify the few particular hosts that >are allowed to attempt to connect. Everyone else will be summarily >rejected. (Firewalling the world is not a bad option, either). Does SSH use tcp wrappers on FC? If no, then modifying hosts.allow and/or hosts.deny would be futile. If you have less than three users connecting to your machine using ssh, I would just add those users to the AllowUsers directive, else create a group and add the users to it then use the AllowGroups directive. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 Unix is a Registered Bell of AT&T Trademark Laboratories. -- Donn Seeley 11:45:04 up 37 days, 5:00, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00