Re: AllowUsers doesn't work with IPs

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:23:43 +0000, Darren Tucker wrote:
>> Jan 24 11:35:15 rex3 sshd[9075]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for
>> illegal user klee from oregon
>
> Do you have IPv6 enabled? If so, the system reports the connections as
> IP4-in-6 mapped addresses so the look like "::ffff:192.168.0.25"

Yes, I'm seeing reports about connections from addresses that look similar
to that above.

> OpenSSH 4.1 and newer "normalize" these addresses back to IPv4 ones so
> what you have would work. You can also tell sshd to listen only on IPv4
> addresses ("ListenAddress 0.0.0.0") which I think will work.

Works, thanks!

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