Login restrictions in NIS environment

[Cecilio Marín]

My apologies, documentation says it works, but on my probes, don't 
detect ruser.

On /etc/hosts.deny, this works:
sshd: ALL@<HOST>

but this not works:
sshd: <ruser>@<HOST>

I probe on RHEL 4 AS.

I said 'in theory'....


Richard Hobbs escribió:

>Hello,
>
>OK, I have now tried the following ideas, and none of them have worked:
>
>1. Add the following to /etc/hosts.deny:
>     sshd: rhobbs at ALL, PARANOID
>
>2. Add the following to /etc/security/access.conf:
>     -:rhobbs nbaker:ALL
>
>I didn't do the exact method that you suggested for "/etc/hosts.allow" and
>"/etc/hosts.deny", because that seems to ban everything, and then let
>certain things through. I want to let everything through, and just ban
>certain users from sshd, so that's why I did step 1 in that way.
>
>As for step 2, I don't know why this didn't work... The "access.conf" file
>already existing, so I assume it is installed and running, but perhaps it is
>not? I'll read the documentation on this one to see if it gives any
>pointers.
>
>If you have any other advice, please let me know.
>
>Thanks again,
>Richard.
>
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