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On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 15:36 -0500, James Colby wrote: |
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> List members - |
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> I have a small home server that I have connected to the internet |
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> through a linksys router and cable modem. The linksys router is |
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> currently forwarding all ssh traffic to my gentoo box. What I would |
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> like to do is set up iptables to only allow ssh logins from a small |
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> number of internet hosts, and to reject and log all other ssh |
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> attempts. Can someone please help me out with this. All of the |
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> tutorials and documentation that I have found are setting up a fully |
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> functioning firewall / NAT / proxy, and I think that is a little |
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> overkill for my needs.s |
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If you don't want the whole iptables suite you might want to consider |
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good ole hosts.allow/hosts.deny as an alternative. They work fine with |
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sshd if you have tcpwrappers enabled. |
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