alan.lamielle.net » sshd_config http://alan.lamielle.net Alan LaMielle Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= SSHD: Allow SSH Connections from localhost only http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/07/16/sshd-allow-ssh-connections-from-localhost-only http://alan.lamielle.net/2009/07/16/sshd-allow-ssh-connections-from-localhost-only#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:53:39 +0000 Alan LaMielle http://alan.lamielle.net/?p=338 I am doing some MPI development on my notebook using the MPICH MPI implementation.  This implementation needs an rsh/ssh connection to work properly.  I was reluctant to run a full sshd instance on my notebook as I didn’t want to open up port 22 to the world to attempt to gain access (even with password authentication disabled, root login disabled, etc.).  I did some digging and found that the sshd_config setting 'ListenAddress' would allow me to force sshd to bind to the interface associated with the specified address.  So, for example:

ListenAddress 127.0.0.1

tells sshd to bind to lo, the loopback device. This means connections over eth* and wlan* will not work as sshd isn’t even listening on these interfaces. As far as I can tell this will do exactly what I’m looking for as I only want ssh working on my local machine and not over interfaces other than lo.

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