[nobody@localhost: DenyHosts Report]

[Scott Garman]

On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 00:52 -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> Okay, so chances are extremely good that I could fix this with better
> settings, but for now I've shut down the denyhosts daemon until I can
> figure out what I did wrong. I do see 3 failed password attempts in the
> last 1000 lines of auth.log, but with 3 of us at the house regularly
> using SSH, that's not out of the question. 
> 
> And I certainly don't want to wake up in the morning and find out that
> my ssh access is blocked :)

Denyhosts allows you to set up a whitelist of IP addresses that will
never get blocked. You have to create a file called "allowed-hosts" and
stick it in denyhost's working directory:

http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#3_7

Throw your home and work IPs in there and then you can mistype your
passwords to your heart's content. :)

HTH,

Scott

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