[CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard

Stephen Cox stephencoxmail at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 09:35:13 UTC 2011


Host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer
AA-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.AAAA.host.com

Stephen

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Cameron Kerr <cameron at humbledown.org> wrote:
> I think you need to do a 'host the-ip-address' to see what the reverse DNS is doing; that seems to be what is causing the problem.
>
> On 8/02/2011, at 6:37 PM, Stephen Cox wrote:
>
>> It didnt work.
>>
>> Here is the logs:
>>
>> Feb  7 18:17:25 server sshd[3537]: reverse mapping checking
>> getaddrinfo for AA-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.AAAA.host.com failed - POSSIBLE
>> BREAKIN ATTEMPT!
>> Feb  7 18:17:25 server sshd[3537]: User root from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not
>> allowed because not listed in AllowUsers
>>
>> But my AllowedUsers has an root@*host.com
>
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