On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Terry wrote: > I had the same problem so i setup up hosts.allow to only allow access > from certain ips i require > This has the affect of killing the connection from any other ip befor > gettign to any login prompt > example below > sshd : localhost : allow > sshd : 192.168.2. : allow > sshd : 82.41.115.213 :allow > sshd : 216.123.248.219 : allow <-- public ip i wish to allow of course > i have changed it > sshd : all : deny > > This then shows in log instead of failed login attempts > > dot.blah.co.uk refused connections: > Sep 17 22:11:55 dlt sshd[35669]: refused connect from usen-219x113x213x21.ap-US.usen.ad.jp (219.113.213.21) you could always just use ipf/ipfw if the log messages are annoying you... > Regards Terry _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"