Knowledge Base

tl;dr

Match Address *,!192.168.1.0/24

Negating address in match statement in sshd_config

I was locking down my ssh server configuration on a host, so that it will not accept password auth from outside a certain IP address range. I had to learn how to get the Match Address directive to work with a negation. To make it work, you need to insert a wildcard before you then state the exclusion.

Match Address *,!192.168.1.0/24

And then I added the directives for this matched IP address range.

   AuthenticationMethods publickey
   PubkeyAuthentication yes
   PasswordAuthentication no
   X11Forwarding no

References

Weblinks

1. https://serverfault.com/questions/408284/how-can-the-address-condition-in-a-match-conditional-block-in-sshd-config-be-neg

Man pages

1. sshd_config
2. ssh_config