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From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:03:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <762BE32F83AF4C9BA5F7BC393F9539DE@tdsdev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <014501c9a963$48a418a0$6400a8c0@quan>

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@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Homuth" <james@the-jdh.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" 
<speakup@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@braille.uwo.ca 
> [mailto:speakup-bounces@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@braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Tyler Littlefield
 ` Chris Brannon
   ` Tyler Littlefield
 ` James Homuth
   ` Kirk Reiser
     ` Tom Moore
     ` Tyler Littlefield
     ` James Homuth
       ` Tyler Littlefield [this message]
         ` James Homuth
           ` Tyler Littlefield
             ` James Homuth
               ` Tyler Littlefield
                 ` James Homuth
                   ` Tyler Littlefield
               ` farhan
                 ` Gregory Nowak
             ` Gregory Nowak
               ` Tyler Littlefield
   ` Tyler Littlefield
   ` Tyler Littlefield
     ` James Homuth
       ` Tyler Littlefield
     ` Jayson Smith
       ` Tyler Littlefield

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