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Old 08-05-2009, 04:30 PM   #1
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host.allow and host.deny

What do host.allow and host.deny do exactly?
what are they??
 
Old 08-05-2009, 08:44 PM   #2
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where you find it? it think it is for ssh, to protect your host from being accessed by unexpected machines
 
Old 08-05-2009, 09:13 PM   #3
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man 5 hosts_access

Nothing to do with ssh, really ... or not necessarily.
 
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