On Wed, 02 Nov 2005, Andrew Lau wrote: > DenyHosts is a python program that automatically blocks ssh attacks > by adding entries to /etc/hosts.deny. DenyHosts will also inform > Linux administrators about offending hosts, attacked users and > suspicious logins. Some discussion/comparison as to how denyhosts differs from fail2ban may be usefull. [fail2ban being another python script that basically fills a similar niche.] Don Armstrong -- It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p25 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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