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diff --git a/security/py-denyhosts/DESCR b/security/py-denyhosts/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9ba94dc7f73 --- /dev/null +++ b/security/py-denyhosts/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +DenyHosts is a script intended to be run by system administrators +to help thwart SSH server attacks (also known as dictionary based +attacks and brute force attacks). + +In short, it does this by monitoring your syslog output for failed +login attempts and tweaking /etc/hosts.deny accordingly, and it can +optionally send and fetch lists of ssh probers from a central server. |