Denyhosts

[Scott Abbey]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>     Is there some reason there isn't a copy of this in a repo? I can't
> even find a .deb for it, though I'd swear I installed it that way the
> other day.  No, wait- that was one of the remaining Fedora systems...
> 
>     This is a really useful tool...and it addresses a growing problem
> (bruteforce SSH and other attacks); I was just hoping I'd overlooked it
> somewhere.


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

Regards,
Scott