Denyhosts

[Matthew Flaschen]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> Scott Abbey wrote:
> 
>> It's in the Universe repository:
> 
>> scott at rei:~$ apt-cache show denyhosts
>> Package: denyhosts
>> Priority: optional
>> Section: universe/net
>> Installed-Size: 412
>> Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Original-Maintainer: Marco Bertorello <marco at bertorello.ns0.it>
>> Architecture: all
>> Version: 2.6-1
>> Replaces: denyhosts-common, denyhosts-python2.3, denyhosts-python2.4
>> Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.1-10), python, python-central (>= 0.5.8)
>> Conflicts: denyhosts-common, denyhosts-python2.3, denyhosts-python2.4
>> Filename: pool/universe/d/denyhosts/denyhosts_2.6-1_all.deb
>> Size: 62390
>> MD5sum: a78e0eafb78bcb1b27d1afc8d8809b1c
>> SHA1: 99f9b466d355cd3f2d8e10b3f929663999eb0629
>> SHA256: 0f193a610d12309bb707d96c98e1b4e1cdfb11da7a27af56f4988e22b1815d6a
>> Description: an utility to help sys admins thwart ssh hackers
>>  DenyHosts is a python program that automatically blocks ssh
>>  brute-force attacks by adding entries to /etc/hosts.deny.
>>  It will also inform Linux administrators about offending
>>  hosts, attacked users and suspicious logins.
>>  .
>>  Syncronization with a central server is possible too.
>>  .
>>  Differently from other software that do same work, denyhosts
>>  doesn't need support for packet filtering or any other kind
>>  of firewall in your kernel
>> Python-Version: current
>> Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Origin: Ubuntu
> 
>     Wow; that's cool, but it brings up another, growing problem.
> 
>     I set up this desktop machine, with Dapper, and glommed-onto someone
> else's changes to /etc/apt/sources.list, which seemed to be complete. I
> keep having to look at it, even though it's all pointing to Canonical,
> there are always SOME packages I can't seem to find.  The search you did
> (apt-cache search denyhosts) and got:
> 
> brian at ws01:~$ apt-cache show denyhosts
> W: Unable to locate package denyhosts
> E: No packages found
> 

As someone said, it's not in Dapper.

Matt Flaschen