Port knocking script/server for fedora?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 17:04:06 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 06:38 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:58:11 +0000,
>   Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum
> >install denyhosts). It's easy to set up and seems to be effective. The
> >logs make fascinating (and scary) reading.
> 
> openssh stopped supporting tcpwrappers/libwrap in version 6.7 (which 
> isn't in Fedora yet), so this will stop working in the not too distant 
> future unless the Fedora maintainer puts that feature back in.

Well that's just great. Thanks for the heads up. I guess I'll have to
get into fail2ban after all (I had opted for denyhosts because at the
time it seemed easier).

poc



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