denyhosts(8)
NAME
DenyHosts - version: 2.6
DESCRIPTION
DenyHosts is a python program that automatically blocks ssh attacks by
adding entries to /etc/hosts.deny. DenyHosts will also inform Linux
administrators about offending hosts, attacked users and suspicious
logins.
Usage: /usr/sbin/denyhosts [-f logfile | --file=logfile] [ -c configfile | --config=configfile] [-i | --ignore] [-n | --noemail] [--purge]
[--migrate] [--daemon] [--sync] [--version]
- --file:
- The name of log file to parse
- --ignore: Ignore last processed offset (start processing from begin
- ning)
- --noemail: Do not send an email report
- --unlock: if lockfile exists, remove it and run as normal
- --migrate: migrate your HOSTS_DENY file so that it is suitable for
- --purge
- --purge: expire entries older than your PURGE_DENY setting
- --daemon: run DenyHosts in daemon mode
- --foreground: run DenyHosts in foreground mode
- --sync: run DenyHosts synchronization mode
- --version: Prints the version of DenyHosts and exits
- Note: multiple --file args can be processed. If multiple files are provided, --ignore is implied
- When run in --daemon mode the following flags are ignored:
- --file, --purge, --migrate, --sync, --verbose
SEE ALSO
Please refer to http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html for full documentation This file can be also found in /usr/share/doc/denyhosts/FAQ.html
AUTHOR
DenyHosts was written by Phil Schwartz <phil_schwartz@users.sourceforge.net>
- This manual page was written by Marco Bertorello
<marco@bertorello.ns0.it> for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).