Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:32:06 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jason Jenkins <jjenkins@skew2.kellogg.nwu.edu> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts allow Message-ID: <20000307143206.K14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.95.1000307155027.20382A-100000@skew2.kellogg.nwu.edu>; from jjenkins@skew2.kellogg.nwu.edu on Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:53:15PM -0600 References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.1000307155027.20382A-100000@skew2.kellogg.nwu.edu>
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* Jason Jenkins <jjenkins@skew2.kellogg.nwu.edu> [000307 14:27] wrote: > Hi I have a question regarding the hosts.allow file. I am trying to simply > deny everyone access, and only allow certain people to access my machine. > So this is what I did: > > > ALL : ALL : deny > ALL : hostname : allow > > However, that did not seem to work. It would not allow me to log in from > IP. Anything i am doing wrong? You have it backwards, it's a first match system, if you say deny all first it won't go any farther. Try swapping the entries. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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