[clug] sshd ListenOnly

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at anu.edu.au
Tue Mar 29 00:25:03 GMT 2005


If you are going down the road of using other things apart from sshd 
itself then the best way would be to use iptables, much more secure and 
much finer control.

Kim

On 2005 Mar 28, , at 9:55 PM, david wrote:

> I liked paul's suggestion, I read thru the man page but this
>
> http://closedsrc.org/dn-articles/hosts_allow.html
>
> was also very useful. It also has wider appeal :)
>
> thanks both Paul and Kim
>
> david
>
> Kim Holburn wrote:
>> from "man sshd_config":
>>      AllowUsers
>>              This keyword can be followed by a list of user name 
>> patterns,
>>              separated by spaces.  If specified, login is allowed 
>> only for
>>              user names that match one of the patterns.  `*' and `'?  
>> can be
>>              used as wildcards in the patterns.  Only user names are 
>> valid; a
>>              numerical user ID is not recognized.  By default, login 
>> is
>>              allowed for all users.  If the pattern takes the form 
>> USER at HOST
>>              then USER and HOST are separately checked, restricting 
>> logins to
>>              particular users from particular hosts.
>> So maybe:
>> AlowUsers @hostname
>> AllowUsers *@192.168.0.2
>> On 2005 Mar 28, , at 7:56 PM, david wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I am wading thru sshd directives, can someone suggest a conf that 
>>> will make sshd respond only to a single ip or a subnet?
>>>
>>> tia
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