started removing pam? >.> I've found it has helped me in locking down on security, though I'm not really sure by how much. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: tyler at tysdomain.com My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 7:53 AM Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry > Fail2Ban operates along the same theory as Denyhosts, though. So whatever > regular expression causes Denyhosts to flip out will probably do the same > for Fail2ban. Tried it on my Gentoo boxes a while back and noticed very > little if any difference. So instead I switched back to Denyhosts and > started removing PAM from my system. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Kirk Reiser > Sent: March 20, 2009 8:58 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry > > A package I just recently found and have installed on a couple of systems > is > fail2ban which has a bunch of popular rule sets included and is easily > expandable by the user. Basically it parses your systems logs and then > performas ip blocks with iptables based on your specifications. It has > ssh > buffer overrun pertection built-in by default. It also has others you can > easily enable. There's a debian package so I imagine there are packages > available for other distro's as well. > > Kirk > -- > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup