[CentOS] SSH AllowUser WildCard

Cameron Kerr cameron at humbledown.org
Tue Feb 8 06:08:03 UTC 2011


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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