Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:19:22
Message-Id:	`3EAD11DD-3A0C-4587-ABA0-E40497375E76@stellar.eclipse.co.uk`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH by Florian Philipp

1	On 16 Feb 2008, at 17:56, Florian Philipp wrote:
2	> ...
3	> Thanks! That did the trick! Now there was an entry about tcp wrapper
4	> denying access in /var/log/messages. Remerging open-ssh with USE="-
5	> tcpd"
6	> solved the problem.
7	>
8	> I will look into tcpd configuration but I don't think I even need
9	> it on
10	> that machine.
11
12	I stumbled across use of tcp wrapper & SSH recently - I think another
13	poster here mentioned DenyHosts, and tcp wrapper is needed for this.
14	http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
15
16	If I look at my auth logs on 3 different systems I see thousands of
17	failed ssh attempts, so DenyHosts would be quite worthwhile here, I
18	think.
19
20	Stroller.
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