Fedora's SSH

[Gunnar vS Kramm]

Original e-mail from: James Drabb (JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com):

> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 23:02, Vincent wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:12:20 -0500
> > James Drabb <JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Do I need to do anything special to allow hosts outside of my home
> > > network to SSH in?  I am running SSH on port 21 and have opened port 21
> > > on my Linksys router/firewall.  However, I cannot connect from my work
> > > to home.  I am using port 21 because the silly MS Admins where I work
> > > have port 22 blocked, yet they allow telnet.
> > > 
> > > I can ssh on my home computer using my public IP and it connects just
> > > fine.  Do I need to add entries to /etc/hosts.allow?
> > 
> > Maybe. append 
> > sshd: 168.1.1.1.1 sect.mydomain.com 
> > or sshd: ALL
> > to your hosts.allow file, plus double check iptables.
> > If when you try to connect the response is 'connection refused' most likely
> > its a tcp wrap problem.
> 
> I though tcp wrappers was only used on xinetd started apps?  I run SSH
> standalone on startup.
> 
> I put the sshd: ALL entry into hosts.all and will give it a shot
> tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Drabb
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Is your iptables allowing connections on port 21?



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