I have never had to have sshd:ALL in my hosts.allow either, before today. I
will give you access to my box if you want to check it out for yourself.

While editing my hosts.allow I remove the last line sshd:all and the newline.
I save the file, and without restart inetd or sshd or anything, I try to ssh
into the box. I get ssh_exchange_identification error.

I then add sshd: ALL to the hosts.allow file that I am still editing, without
the newline at the end I save the file, without restarting any services I try
to ssh into the box, same error

I add a newline to the end of sshd: ALL in the hosts.allow that I still have
open in an editor, and save without exiting. I dont restart any services
again, and try to ssh into the box. It works.

If it isnt suppose to do that, I dont know how to fix it. I am no Linux god
yet.



Ben Kochie wrote:

> huh.. i don't know about you.. but all 4 of my debian machines don't have
> sshd:ALL in the /etc/hosts.allow.. and yes.. there are specs for the
> compile.. it's located in the source directory, and as part of apt.
> add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb-src http://stuff distro main contrib non-free
> then cd to a nice scratch area (where you want the source downloaded)
> apt-get source pkg-name
> that will download teh source, and all of the requirements
> then, apt-get --build pkg-name
> that will start the automated build process.. just play around a bit.. and
> it will love you, just as much as you love debian :)
>
> Thank You,
>         Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Jason J wrote:
>
> > Looks like there has to be a newline after the last entry in the
> > hosts.allow file.
> > I have never had sshd: ALL in there before, but now it seems to be
> > required.
> > After I added a newline after sshd: ALL it is working.
> >
> > I guess my only complaint about debian (after using it for over 1.5
> > years) is that it isnt always clear how the software was compiled by the
> > debian packagers. No where did it tell me I had to have a hosts.allow
> > entry and the deb package didnt put one there.
> >
> > Thanks everyone for all your help. Hope I can return the favor.
> >
> > Jason
> >
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