On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Sven Michels wrote: sm> sm> sm> > I have installed a SuSE 7.3 with openSSH running correctly, then sm> > I decided to run the harden_suse script. Before the script i could sm> > both SSH in and out (to another box on the network), now after the sm> > script has ran, i cannot SSH out or in. sm> > sm> > I am not the familar with the details of the harden_suse script, sm> > does it block ports (22 for ssh)? sm> sm> last time i used harden_suse it adds a deny rule to /etc/hosts.deny sm> for all hosts, this also blocks ssh incoming. You can add a sshd: all : allow sm> to your /etc/hosts.allow and ssh should be working again. sm> sm> This doesn't fix the outgoing problem, but i think thats not a sm> harden suse problem.. sm> I believe one of the questions when you launched the harden_suse.pl script was "securing login attempts and only allowing root to logon through the console". I could be mistaken with it's intent, but I believe that's what the issue is if you chose YES for that question. sm> sm> sm> -- S.Toms - smotrs at mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v7.2 - Kernel 2.4.10 (1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes.