yeah. I haven't had the issue with pre-built packages, but I"m sure it exists. 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 9:03 AM Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry > Get used to it. Even precompiled bianires via apt-get will occasionally > segfault. The only difference is you have the option of recompiling to try > and correct it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield > Sent: March 20, 2009 10:57 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry > >>That, plus sometimes, >>it's just fun to recompile. > I scream and throw a fit every time I have to recompile. :) actually I > like > changing configuration around, I really scream when it breaks and I see > the > lovely "segmentation fault." :) > > 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 at the-jdh.com> > To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:55 AM > Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry > > >> There's probably a configuration directive you can change to turn it off, >> even if it *is* listed as a dependancy. But Gentoo gives me that level of >> customization, so I figure I might as well use it. That, plus sometimes, >> it's just fun to recompile. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >> On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield >> Sent: March 20, 2009 10:49 AM >> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >> Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry >> >> nice. I hadn't had that issue, but then again my apt-get does it all for >> me. >> >> I'm not pacient enough to sit there and wait for openSSH to compile and >> fight with it on something like slackware, though it would probably be >> the >> prefered method of configuring things. Then I wouldn't be at the mercy of >> the package maintainers. >> >> >> >> 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 at the-jdh.com> >> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" >> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 8:44 AM >> Subject: RE: denyhosts quandry >> >> >>> It doesn't help much. Mine, at least, wouldn't stop asking for a >>> password >>> even if I set SSHD to ask for public key only. So rather than fight with >>> it, >>> I recompiled OpenSSH without it. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca >>> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] >>> On Behalf Of Tyler Littlefield >>> Sent: March 20, 2009 10:03 AM >>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. >>> Subject: Re: denyhosts quandry >>> >>> 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 at the-jdh.com> >>> 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
