EPEL denyhosts in epel7

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 18:13:44 UTC 2014


On 21 August 2014 09:20, Brice Burgess <nesta at iceburg.net> wrote:

> Will denyhosts be added to epel7 or is the plan to centralize on fail2ban
> (which is already in epel7)? In the past I've relied on denyhbosts for
> securing against brute force ssh login attempts &c -- and its part of my OS
> boot strapping process.
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I believe denyhosts is being dropped from both Fedora 20+ and EPEL because
it does not work well with systemd and its development community hasn't
updated it for various other problems in a while.



> The fail2ban community seems slightly more active with more "modules" for
> sniffing out specific attacks against commodity software like wordpress by
> examining webserver logs &c... although I really like the ability to
> participate in a centralized RBL-like database that denyhosts offers.
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> If I can help maintain denyhosts I'm happy to do so. Ticket was opened;
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130377
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> Thanks,
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> ~ Brice
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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