On Thursday 02 December 2004 06:47 am, Paul Howarth wrote: > John Aldrich 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. > > Simplest way: run system-config-securitylevel and select SSH to be a > trusted service on the "Firewall options" tab. This will open the ssh port > to all IP addresses rather than just the three or four, but the rest of the > default iptables settings will be running as normal. > Thanks, Paul.. that's even better! :-) Then again, maybe I'll go back to the suggestion Andrei had of configuring it just for the 3 or 4 IPs I need... considering I've had hack attempts to my ssh port in the past... :-) We'll just have to keep an eye on /var/log/secure. :-) 'Preciate it guys! John
