On Mon, 5 May 2003, eric wrote: > this works now: /etc/hosts.allow: ALL : ALL > > but if i put "sshd: " in front of that, it stops working. WTF? Double-check your 'ps auxwww | grep sshd' listing. The daemon_list is argv[0] -- which is the first argument. Maybe it has a different name? > It's OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, the one that comes default with RH 7.2. That OpenSSH-2.5.2p2 is from 2001? Please note that a few security issues have been fixed since then. Depending on your setup, even a remote root exploit is possible. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/