On 4/30/07, Jeremy Gray <jrgray at gmail.com> wrote: > issue solved! indeed, it was a bit silly: tcpwrappers was preventing sshd > from connecting to localhost, as I discovered when poring through > /var/log/secure . simply adding > > sshd: 127.0.0.1: ALLOW > to /etc/hosts.allow and all is well. > > thanks for being patient with my newbie confusion! Congrats! I am so happy for you. Akemi