denyhosts quandry

Tyler Littlefield tyler at tysdomain.com
Fri Mar 20 20:04:57 EDT 2009


gotcha. thanks.
I understand the signing of private key and of another partie's public key 
(thanks to littlebrother) , but I wasn't sure how ssh did it.

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.'" 
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Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 5:54 PM
Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry


> The keys themselves are encripted, so it's extremely unlikely someone's
> going to break the encription. That's also why there are two keys.
> -----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 7:00 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry
>
> someone on here mentioned using public and private key pairs.
> I've now got that set up, and have disabled password authentication.
> How secure is this--in other words, am I going to need denyhosts working
> still?
> Is this something that can be cracked by some script kiddy with to much
> time?
>
>
> 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 1:21 AM
> Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry
>
>
>> Before you start looking for an app to blame, check the logs. Open a SSH
>> session, tail -F /bath/to/ssh.log, then load WinSCP. Then you'll know
>> precisely what's causing Denyhosts to freak out.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
>> On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield
>> Sent: March 19, 2009 10:26 PM
>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> Subject: denyhosts quandry
>>
>> Hello list,
>> I have a quick question.
>> I am running denyhosts on my linux system, to try to keep out attackers
>> from
>> running a password cracker on my ssh.
>> It's caught a few, but it seems to be screaming when I log in with win
>> SCP.
>> Basically, every time I log in, it just blocks my host out.
>> Is there a way I can either get it to stop, or possibly set it to not
>> block
>> that host?
>> I'm not sure why WIN SCP would trigger a denyhosts, as as far as I know,
>> it
>> runs when a password is incorrect.
>> Unless win SCP sends an invalid login for some reason first, or something
>> of
>> that sort.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>> Web: tysdomain.com
>> email: tyler at tysdomain.com
>> My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.
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