Re: Early heads-up: plan to remove local patches for TCP Wrappers support in sshd

Mike Kelly <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.security.general,gmane.os.freebsd.current
Message-ID <CAFb0Ns+sjAizDdu5FVEM-MJOVmmzGvW8Xu2HSUynKSWc3zBRxw@mail.gmail.com>
security/py-fail2ban in ports is a good alternative. Can be combined with
pf and the like to have a similar effect.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, 3:27 PM Joey Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday, February 14, 2020 01:18:44 PM Ed Maste wrote:
> > Upstream OpenSSH-portable removed libwrap support in version 6.7,
> > released in October 2014. We've maintained a patch in our tree to
> > restore it, but it causes friction on each OpenSSH update and may
> > introduce security vulnerabilities not present upstream. It's (past)
> > time to remove it.
>
>
> So color me ignorant, but how does this affect things like DenyHosts? Or
> is
> there an in-application way to block dictionary attacks? I can't go back
> to
> having my servers pounded on day and night (and yes, I listed on an
> alternative port).
>
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