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schome1

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Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 61

hosts.allow / hosts.deny question

To get ssh working, I go into the /etc/hosts.deny and comment out the line

ALL: ALL: DENY

I noticed that there is a hosts.allow file.  How do I go about using the hosts.allow file?  How can I use both the hosts.allow and hosts.deny together?  What is the format for hosts.allow/deny?

Bobonov

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From: Roma - Italy

Registered: 2003-05-07

Posts: 295

Re: hosts.allow / hosts.deny question

man 5 hosts_access
this is the man page, remeber to put 5 after man othervise another man page is dispalyed

Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

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Re: hosts.allow / hosts.deny question

[jchu@hercules jchu]$ cat /etc/hosts.allow
#
# /etc/hosts.allow
#

sshd: ALL
smbd: ALL
nmbd: ALL

# End of file

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schome1

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Registered: 2004-02-15

Posts: 61

Re: hosts.allow / hosts.deny question

Thank you, that works like I had hoped.