Port knocking script/server for fedora?

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Wed Nov 19 18:44:45 UTC 2014


On 11/19/2014 11:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
> 
Look at OSSEC, too.

-- 
-- Steve


More information about the users mailing list