Re: Early heads-up: plan to remove local patches for TCP Wrappers support in sshd
Mike Kelly <[email protected]>
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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). > > -- > Joey Kelly > Minister of the Gospel and Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net > 504-239-6550 > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected] > " > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"