You are right, this should be made explicit. In my case it was working, as my default for iptables was to accept packages, but i did not state this anywhere in my blog post. I will update the snippet to the one you posted in the other comment.
Good catch and thanks for you valuable input 👍
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If someone try that and don't add his IP as whitelisted (1.2.3.4 example) SSH connexions won't be blocked but they won't be accepted neither...
It's needed to add this line after the
iptables -A SSH_CHECKrules:iptables -A SSH_CHECK -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPTPlease update the example.
Anyway, thanks for this useful post!
You are right, this should be made explicit. In my case it was working, as my default for
iptableswas to accept packages, but i did not state this anywhere in my blog post. I will update the snippet to the one you posted in the other comment.Good catch and thanks for you valuable input 👍