Hi Jim, > I've used ssh as a secure telnet up to now but done little else with > it. The FreeBSD machines I look after on our internet-facing network > all have one account which I connect to for administration. I've set > up /etc/hosts.allow on all the machines to only allow ssh from a > limited internal network range. > > Now I want to create a new account on one machine which will be > accessible from the Internet as a whole, to be used for tunnelling of > SMTP and POP3. I can't predict what the client IP address will be so I > will have to remove the hosts.allow restriction. have you considered the "AllowGroups" and "AllowUsers" directives of sshd_config? They should provide exact the functionality that you want. -volker _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"