ssh and hosts.allow; purpose of ssh

From: sjfromm (sjfromm@starpower.net)
Date: 12/20/01 

From: sjfromm@starpower.net (sjfromm)
Date: 20 Dec 2001 11:45:28 -0800

My sysadmin and I have gotten into a disgreement over how to set up
our system so that I can get in to my Solaris host from outside the
WAN at work.

He thinks that putting an entry into hosts.allow (this is for Solaris)
for ssh that allows in a lot of IPs is very dangerous. Is that right?
 If it were, what is the purpose of ssh? (He suggested I change DSL
providers to get a static IP. I said that that is ridiculous.)

sjfromm

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