sshd basics

[Jeremy C. Reed]

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/