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... :-( Thanks, -- Marco Bertorello System Administrator Linux Registered User #319921 marco@bertorello.ns0.it Certo che Solaris è flessibile... come un pezzo di ghisa -- io
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