denyhosts quandry

[James Homuth]

There's probably a configuration directive you can change to turn it off,
even if it *is* listed as a dependancy. But Gentoo gives me that level of
customization, so I figure I might as well use it. That, plus sometimes,
it's just fun to recompile.

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
Sent: March 20, 2009 10:49 AM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry

nice. I hadn't had that issue, but then again my apt-get does it all for me.

I'm not pacient enough to sit there and wait for openSSH to compile and
fight with it on something like slackware, though it would probably  be the
prefered method of configuring things. Then I wouldn't be at the mercy of
the package maintainers.



Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler at tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:44 AM
Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry


> It doesn't help much. Mine, at least, wouldn't stop asking for a password
> even if I set SSHD to ask for public key only. So rather than fight with 
> it,
> I recompiled OpenSSH without it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
> Sent: March 20, 2009 10:03 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry
>
> started removing pam? >.>
> I've found it has helped me in locking down on security, though I'm not
> really sure by how much.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tyler Littlefield
> Web: tysdomain.com
> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
> My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Homuth" <james at the-jdh.com>
> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:53 AM
> Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry
>
>
>> Fail2Ban operates along the same theory as Denyhosts, though. So whatever
>> regular expression causes Denyhosts to flip out will probably do the same
>> for Fail2ban. Tried it on my Gentoo boxes a while back and noticed very
>> little if any difference. So instead I switched back to Denyhosts and
>> started removing PAM from my system.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
>> On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser
>> Sent: March 20, 2009 8:58 AM
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry
>>
>> A package I just recently found and have installed on a couple of systems
>> is
>> fail2ban which has a bunch of popular rule sets included and is easily
>> expandable by the user.  Basically it parses your systems logs and then
>> performas ip blocks with iptables based on your specifications.  It has
>> ssh
>> buffer overrun pertection built-in by default.  It also has others you 
>> can
>> easily enable.  There's a debian package so I imagine there are packages
>> available for other distro's as well.
>>
>>   Kirk
>> --
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>> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
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