On Monday 26 March 2007 11:33 am, Jerome Santos wrote:

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> I have a few seperate users on my server, one user for which I want to

> dissallow ssh login. Now I've read the man page for sshd and I've read a

> lot of the documentation on this, but I'm still not clear one one point. By

> default, /etc/ssh/sshd.config shows all entries are commented out. I want

> to add something like this:

>

> AllowUsers user1, user2, user3

>

> I added that in but also with an # in front like all the other entries. Now

> I find that I can still ssh to the box with a user acct that I didn't

> include in the entry. Should it be in there without the #? And if so, do I

> also then have to uncomment all the other entries??

man sshd_config

In the first paragraph you will find the line "Lines starting with `#' and

empty lines are interpreted as comments." The default config file is full of

examples that are commented out which are the lines you see.
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Tim Kuhlman

Network Administrator

ColoradoVnet.com