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Diffstat (limited to 'security/denyhosts/pkg-descr')
-rw-r--r-- | security/denyhosts/pkg-descr | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/security/denyhosts/pkg-descr b/security/denyhosts/pkg-descr index fc884f1b1fdf..ac7d932a85ca 100644 --- a/security/denyhosts/pkg-descr +++ b/security/denyhosts/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by *ix system administrators to +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. +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) @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ Denyhosts helps you: - 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 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 +- 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 |