Secure Shell protocol is abbreviated as SSH. It is a secure and most commonly using protocol to access remote servers. This protocol uses encryption while transferring data between two hosts.
TCP Wrapper is a host-based networking ACL system, used to filter network access to Internet Protocol servers on (Unix-like) operating systems such as Linux or BSD.
It allows host or subnetwork IP addresses, names and/or ident query replies, to be used as tokens on which to filter for access control purposes.
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I am going to explain how TCP wrappers help to protect server by controlling external connections. We can control the SSH connection to a server by using the following files:
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
How to block an IP address from SSH connection?
Step 1 : SSH to server as root user.
Step 2 : Open /etc/hosts.deny file using your favorite text editor.
sshd : IP-Address
To block more than one IP addresses:
sshd : IP-Address1, IP-Address2, IP-Address3
To block IP ranges:
sshd : 33.*.*.*
sshd : 66.66.*.*
Block all IP addresses from SSH
sshd : ALL
Or
ALL : ALL
SSH connection result:
[root@localhost ~]# ssh localhost
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
We can also control the same from /etc/hosts.allow file by adding the keyword “DENY.”
# vi /etc/hosts.allow
sshd : ALL : DENY
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/etc/hosts.allow
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[root@my-pc ~]# systemctl restart network
Job for network.service failed. See ‘systemctl status network.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.
[root@my-pc ~]#
Hi Arun,
I’m getting the above error when i try to restart the network service.
Could you please guide me to sort this out ?
OS : Centos-7