SSH IP blocking?

[Keith Clark]

Good question!  I look forward to the answer.

Keith


----- Original Message ----
From: Felipe Figueiredo <philsf79 at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 3:04:02 PM
Subject: Re: SSH IP blocking?

On Wed 09 Apr 2008 15:43:02 Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/denyhosts restart.  I configured it to download
> (and upload) lists to share bans and it REALLY populated the deny list,

How hard is it make such an upload? Do you have to be authencated in some 
form? If not, this can be seriously abused. In fact, some such script 
kiddie could use it to block arbitrary IPs.

regards
FF