On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 06:41:59 -0500, John Aldrich <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It appears that the default firewall rules in FC3 /deny/ ssh access to the > system. How do I go about writing rules to permit ssh access? I have maybe 3 > or four IP addresses that need to be able to log into my linux box, other > than that, no one else needs to be able to access it. > Thanks... > John > afaik, you can select, during installation, to allow ssh traffic through the firewall. to do it after installation, one would tipically run iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -s <source_ip> --dport 22 -j ACCEPT to allow ssh traffic from <source_ip> to the local box. you can run this more than one time with a different ip address each time to allow access from multiple addresses. to save this configuration so that it persists after a reboot, you also need to do service iptables save hth, andrei
