DenyHost locked me out. How to create exceptions?

Micro420 · 03-14-2007, 05:03 PM

I can't explain it, but somehow DenyHost has locked me out of my computer. I can still access it locally, but every time I clear the /etc/hosts.deny ip address, DenyHost fills it back up. How do I remove my ip address from the hosts.deny list and not have DenyHost add it back in? I've tried commenting it out but DenyHost is too smart!

Hangdog42 · 03-14-2007, 05:16 PM

You should be adding your IP to the hosts.allow file. That supersedes anything in hosts.deny.

Micro420 · 03-14-2007, 05:51 PM

Duh! I should have thought of that. You're a genius! Works like a charm

Hangdog42 · 03-15-2007, 06:39 AM

Actually I do have one more question, namely what distro are you using? I've seen a couple of other threads with a similar problem (the system is modifying hosts.deny), and I'm wondering if it is distro specific.

xpucto · 03-15-2007, 07:14 AM

You also have to restart sshd otherwise the changes won't be taken in account.

Micro420 · 03-31-2007, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hangdog42

Actually I do have one more question, namely what distro are you using? I've seen a couple of other threads with a similar problem (the system is modifying hosts.deny), and I'm wondering if it is distro specific.

This is on an Ubuntu 6.10 distro.