I have never had to have sshd:ALL in my hosts.allow either, before today. I will give you access to my box if you want to check it out for yourself. While editing my hosts.allow I remove the last line sshd:all and the newline. I save the file, and without restart inetd or sshd or anything, I try to ssh into the box. I get ssh_exchange_identification error. I then add sshd: ALL to the hosts.allow file that I am still editing, without the newline at the end I save the file, without restarting any services I try to ssh into the box, same error I add a newline to the end of sshd: ALL in the hosts.allow that I still have open in an editor, and save without exiting. I dont restart any services again, and try to ssh into the box. It works. If it isnt suppose to do that, I dont know how to fix it. I am no Linux god yet. Ben Kochie wrote: > huh.. i don't know about you.. but all 4 of my debian machines don't have > sshd:ALL in the /etc/hosts.allow.. and yes.. there are specs for the > compile.. it's located in the source directory, and as part of apt. > add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list > deb-src http://stuff distro main contrib non-free > then cd to a nice scratch area (where you want the source downloaded) > apt-get source pkg-name > that will download teh source, and all of the requirements > then, apt-get --build pkg-name > that will start the automated build process.. just play around a bit.. and > it will love you, just as much as you love debian :) > > Thank You, > Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) > > *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] > | Unix/Linux Consulting | [ Haiku Error Message: ] > | PC/Mac Repair | [ Chaos reigns within. ] > | Networking | [ Reflect, repent, and reboot. ] > | http://nerp.net | [ Order shall return. ] > *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] > > "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Jason J wrote: > > > Looks like there has to be a newline after the last entry in the > > hosts.allow file. > > I have never had sshd: ALL in there before, but now it seems to be > > required. > > After I added a newline after sshd: ALL it is working. > > > > I guess my only complaint about debian (after using it for over 1.5 > > years) is that it isnt always clear how the software was compiled by the > > debian packagers. No where did it tell me I had to have a hosts.allow > > entry and the deb package didnt put one there. > > > > Thanks everyone for all your help. Hope I can return the favor. > > > > Jason > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org