Denyhosts
Denyhosts SSH for SME7
Maintainer
Unnilennium aka Jean-Philippe PIALASSE (Contrib)
Description
- Denyhosts bans hosts which failed too many login attempts to your ssh deamon.
- It contains also a panel in the server manager to see who is blocked, add some allowed hosts not to block and enable or disable the service.
it needs the packages smeserver-denyhosts and denyhosts
Installation
1. Log in (with username root) to the SMEserver console.
2. Install smeserver-denyhosts
yum install smeserver-denyhosts --enablerepo=smecontribs
You will get a y/N-question, answer y if it looks fine.
3. Instructions at the end of previous installation advices the following commands:
signal-event post-upgrade and signal-event reboot
it is recommended to do so !
but you can skip that using
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf
4. Open your webbrowser and go to the server-manager.
Under "Security" there should be a new line named "SSH Denyhosts".
You should go to it and configure all necessary allowed host before enabling the service
Alternatively you can use the server-manager panel "Software installer" to add a new package and select smeserver-denyhosts (repo smecontribs must be enabled) then do the reconfiguration and reboot task, instead of steps 1 to 3, then refresh your browser and configure denyhosts,.
Editing configuration
Q) How is an ip-address removed from the blocked list?
A) Edit the configuration file and and restart the service.
pico -w /etc/hosts.deny_ssh
Make required changes, then save & exit
ctrl + c
ctrl + x
/etc/init.d/denyhosts restart
Uninstall
yum remove smeserver-denyhosts denyhosts
or alternatively just remove them from the server-manager "Software installer"
Additional information
you can change the destination email account, instead of the default admin account, for this contribs using :
config setprop denyhosts AdminEmail youremail@yourdomaine.tld signal-event conf-denyhosts
Check installed version
yum info installed smeserver-denyhosts
