On 15 Aug 2013, at 18:50 , David Emrich <d.emr...@curtin.edu.au> wrote:
First question (in the headers): List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=denyhosts-user> > I have left the RESET_ON_SUCCESS parameter in its default state of NO I've never understood why that is the default. I suppose it's, somehow, safer? To me, it seems like bloody inconvenience for the sake of security theatre. You KNOW the person at that IP is authorized, so why wouldn't you reset the ban counter? > sshd[<pid>]: Failed publickey for <valid-user> from <IP> ... > sshd[<pid>]: Accepted password for <valid-user> ... > sshd[<pid>]: pam_unix (sshd:session): session opened for <valid-user> > > etc. etc. > > My second question is, does DenyHosts count those failed publickey > attempts towards a ban-limit? I can't imagine a reason it wouldn't. It counts failures, and you have a failure that you aren't resetting. > *************************************** > David Emrich > > MWA Hardware Manager > Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy > International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research > 1 Turner Avenue, Technology Park > BENTLEY WA 6102, Australia > > Postal: > David Emrich > Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy > GPO BOX U1987 > PERTH WA 6845, Australia > > Email: d.emr...@curtin.edu.au > > WWW: www.facebook.com/Murchison.Widefield.Array > http://astronomy.curtin.edu.au > > Phone: +61 (0)8 9266 9672 > > Mobile: +61 (0)419 908 271 Wow, that is a lot of sig. -- 'When you've been a wizard as long as I have, my boy, you'll learn that as soon as you find anything that offers amazing possibilities for the improvement of the human condition, it's best to put the lid back on and pretend it never happened.' --The Last Continent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list Denyhosts-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
