Fedora's SSH
James Drabb
JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Feb 24 04:39:35 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 23:02, Vincent wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:12:20 -0500
> James Drabb <JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Do I need to do anything special to allow hosts outside of my home
> > network to SSH in? I am running SSH on port 21 and have opened port 21
> > on my Linksys router/firewall. However, I cannot connect from my work
> > to home. I am using port 21 because the silly MS Admins where I work
> > have port 22 blocked, yet they allow telnet.
> >
> > I can ssh on my home computer using my public IP and it connects just
> > fine. Do I need to add entries to /etc/hosts.allow?
>
> Maybe. append
> sshd: 168.1.1.1.1 sect.mydomain.com
> or sshd: ALL
> to your hosts.allow file, plus double check iptables.
> If when you try to connect the response is 'connection refused' most likely
> its a tcp wrap problem.
I though tcp wrappers was only used on xinetd started apps? I run SSH
standalone on startup.
I put the sshd: ALL entry into hosts.all and will give it a shot
tomorrow.
Thanks,
Jim Drabb
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The box said: "Requires Windows 98/2000/NT/XP or better."
So, I installed LINUX!
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James Drabb JR
Senior Programmer Analyst
Davenport, FL USA
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