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