Re: [SSHGuard-users] Do whitelist entries work inside the sshguard.conf file?

[Daniel A. <co...@da...>]

On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 04.45.01 CEST, Darshil Shah wrote:
> I've installed sshguard on a home server and was wondering if I 
> had set up whitelisting properly.
>
> What I have done is create a sshguard.conf file inside /etc and 
> have added a line and then restarted the sshguard service:
>
> # local ip whitelist
> -w local.ipaddress
>
> because I don't want to lock myself out when accessing from the 
> local network.
>
> Will this whitelist work? Or is a separate whitelist file required?

No. You can specify the -w argument on the command line, but you cannot 
include it in the configuration file. You’ll need to use a separate 
whitelist file.
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Daniel Aleksandersen
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