From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 19:00:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102CF16A4CF for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:00:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB33343D41 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:00:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3RJ0Wi6039175 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:00:32 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j3RJ0Wp3039174; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:00:32 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:00:32 GMT Message-Id: <200504271900.j3RJ0Wp3039174@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: Brad Davis Subject: Re: docs/80416: Add information on how to use AllowUsers to the OpenSSH section X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Brad Davis List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:00:33 -0000 The following reply was made to PR docs/80416; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brad Davis To: bug-followup@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: docs/80416: Add information on how to use AllowUsers to the OpenSSH section Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:58:35 -0600 Fix a typo where my fingers got ahead of themselves. Noticed by remko@ --- doc-ori/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml Wed Apr 27 01:28:51 2005 +++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/security/chapter.sgml Wed Apr 27 12:56:10 2005 @@ -4546,6 +4546,39 @@ + AllowUsers - Controlling what users are allowed to login + and from where + + It is often a good idea to only allow users to login from a + certain host and not allow other users to login at all. + AllowUsers is a good way to accomplish this. For example, to + only allow the root user to login from 192.168.1.32, something like this would + be appropriate for &man.sshd_config.5;: + + AllowUsers root@192.168.1.32 + + To allow a user, admin, to login from anywhere, use a + *: + + AllowUsers admin@* + + Multiple users will all be listed on the same line: + + AllowUsers root@192.168.1.32 admin@* + + + It is important that you list each user that needs to + login to this machine, otherwise they will be locked out. + + + After making any changes to sshd_config + you must restart &man.sshd.8; by running: + + &prompt.root; killall -HUP sshd + + + Further Reading OpenSSH &man.ssh.1; &man.scp.1; &man.ssh-keygen.1;