denyhosts quandry

[Tyler Littlefield]

yeah. I haven't had the issue with pre-built packages, but I"m sure it 
exists.


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 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry


> Get used to it. Even precompiled bianires via apt-get will occasionally
> segfault. The only difference is you have the option of recompiling to try
> and correct 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 10:57 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry
>
>>That, plus sometimes,
>>it's just fun to recompile.
> I scream and throw a fit every time I have to recompile. :) actually I 
> like
> changing configuration around, I really scream when it breaks and I see 
> the
> lovely "segmentation fault." :)
>
> 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 8:55 AM
> Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry
>
>
>> 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
>>>> --
>>>> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
>>>> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
>>>> phone: (519) 661-3061
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