hosts.allow and hosts.deny WHM Host Access Control - what if my IP changes?

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Published on 2012-07-06T10:54:40Z Indexed on 2012/07/06 15:17 UTC
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I want to use WHM/Cpanel's Host Access Control interface to change some settings in hosts.allow and hosts.deny. I want to block all access to our SSH exept from the IP we have from our office.

Daemon  Access List             Action      Comment
sshd      ALL EXCEPT x.x.x.x        deny          Deny access from all other IPs apart from ours

But I am worried about what happens if our IP changes, which it does about twice a week. How would I get back in to edit the hosts.allow / hosts.deny files?

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