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diff --git a/security/denyhosts/pkg-descr b/security/denyhosts/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..659ff077df94 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/denyhosts/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by *ix system administrators to +help thwart ssh server attacks. + +If you've ever looked at your ssh log (/var/log/auth.log ) you may be alarmed +to see how many hackers attempted to gain access to your server. +Denyhosts helps you: +- Parses /var/log/auth.log to find all login attempts +- Can be run from the command line, cron or as a daemon (new in 0.9) +- Records all failed login attempts for the user and offending host +- For each host that exceeds a threshold count, records the evil host +- Keeps track of each non-existent user (eg. sdada) when a login attempt failed. +- Keeps track of each existing user (eg. root) when a login attempt failed. +- Keeps track of each offending host (hosts can be purged ) +- Keeps track of suspicious logins +- Keeps track of the file offset, so that you can reparse the same file +- When the log file is rotated, the script will detect it +- Appends /etc/hosts.allow +- Optionally sends an email of newly banned hosts and suspicious logins. +- Resolves IP addresses to hostnames, if you want + +WWW: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ |