Re: RFC: denyhosts
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:04:33PM +0100, Marco Bertorello wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:29:14 -0500
> Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:24:25PM +0100, Marco Bertorello wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm working on a new package called denyhosts.
> > >
> > > The program is a python script that can monitor a log file
> > > (default /var/log/auth.log) for ssh brute-force attack attempts and
> > > block them adding an entry in /etc/hosts.deny.
> > How does it do so? That is a configuration file (and not a conffile),
> > but AFAIK there is no interface allowing batch modification.
>
> I don't understand...
>
> /etc/hosts.deny is a ASCII text file.
>
> It can be manipulated also using a bash script, banally with somethings
> like:
>
> echo "sshd: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
>
> But I think that I' ve not understood your question... :-(
Policy 10.7.4: "The owning package should also provide a program that
the other packages may use to modify the configuration file."
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
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Clear skies,
Justin
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