Yup...it's been compiled in for quite some time, that way. On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Charles Leeds wrote: > Well, I will have to recant this because somehow the sshd is using > hosts.allow and hosts.deny even though it does not appear to be called > from the /etc/rc.d/init.d script. > > Charles Leeds wrote: > > > > > 1) Daemons that use xinetd are protected by hosts.deny and > > hosts.allow, and therefore can use them > > 2) The SSH RPM that ships with RHEL does _NOT_ use xinetd, and cannot > > use hosts.allow and hosts.deny out of the box > > 3) SSH can be compiled/configured to use xinetd > > > > So to secure access to sshd you need to either: > > > > 1) Use the AllowUsers line in the sshd_config file and restart your > > sshd service > > 2) Configure sshd to go through xinetd so you can use hosts.allow and > > hosts.deny > > > > Lindsay > > > > > > > > > > > > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 11:04, Margaret Doll wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Use /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow > >>> > >> > >> > >> hosts.allow and hosts.deny control access to other servicess too > >> beside SSH. they also allow you to use domain name to allow access. > >> "man hosts.allow" and 'man hosts.deny'. > >> > >> RDB > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
