On 01/07/2011 10:49 AM, Mike Zingale wrote: > 2011/1/7 Markus Schönhaber<fedora-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> 07.01.2011 00:28, Timothy Murphy: >> >>> I have an sshd server running on a machine in Ireland. >>> >>> Can I configure it so that it only accepts connection >>> from certain machines, wherever they may be in the world? > I uses /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow to do this. In > /etc/hosts.deny I have > > ALL:ALL > > (though, you might want it to just be sshd: ALL). > > Then in hosts.allow, I have a line like > > sshd: .domain.com > > for each of the domains or machines I want to grant access. This > seems to work well. a variation on the theme: in /etc/hosts/allow the line ALL:LOCAL /etc/hosts will limit access to the contents of the hosts file -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells@xxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines