ssh login denied

wacko_cracko · 10-30-2004, 09:03 AM

Hi,

I had this setup before and it worked great but all of a sudden it seems to have stopped working and have no idea why if anyone has seen this beofre then help!

I had my hosts.allow to only allow logins from my local network and my work IP (sub for 1.2.3.4), now for some reason when i try and login using my work ip it gets refused, if I do a sshd: ALL it works again, where am I going wrong as this was working before and I havnt changed anything

/etc/hosts.allow

Quote:

sshd: 127.0.0.1 192.168.51.0/255.255.255.0 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0

logs

Quote:

refused connect from 1.2.3.4 (1.2.3.4)

Thnks
wc

neilman · 10-30-2004, 09:49 AM

Try:

sshd: 1.2.3.

Instead of the CIDR 1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0 format. Above, that will allow 1.2.3.* [0-255] in.

wacko_cracko · 10-30-2004, 10:05 AM

beautiful! works like a charm

any idea why it would just stop respodning? the old method still works fine when I try and login from my local net..

weird!

but thanks

-wc

neilman · 10-30-2004, 10:15 AM

Look at your maxstartups and logingracetime settings in your /etc/ssh/sshd.conf file. Read the man page for more information about these. If so many unsuccessful attempts occur, you may be experiencing a lockout issue, and a rehup or reinit of sshd might be just resetting a counter. But if it's working for you now, forget about it.