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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:54:17 +0200
From:      Volker Kindermann <ml@ps102.de>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question restricting ssh access for some users only
Message-ID:  <20041007195417.430a8b5c@ariel.office.volker.de>
In-Reply-To: <cvuam0t1l2u7npnigk6oqrlq288hlu0mgn@4ax.com>
References:  <cvuam0t1l2u7npnigk6oqrlq288hlu0mgn@4ax.com>

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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



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