I started using DenyHosts a couple of weeks ago. Fantastic software, thank
you very much for it's creation.
I have a problem where an account holder failed numerous login attempts, and
had their IP black listed. I assumed that to remove them from this
black-list I could:
1) Remove their ip from /etc/hosts.deny
2) Have them re-attempt login, thinking the successful login would reset
their failed count.
However, even after a successful login, they are again blacklisted when
DenyHosts runs again.
I tried adding their IP's to the hosts-valid file in /data, but that doesn't
seem to work either. It is almost like DenyHosts is parsing the whole log
file in it's entirety, and sees the old failed attempts and black-lists
them.
What exactly are the steps one should take to remove one from the
black-list? (have been running in daemon mode)
As an aside, when I tried shutting off the daemon running in the background
with 'deamon-control stop', I get a message the DenyHosts isn't running,
even though there is a PID file and I see it in the process list. The only
way I am able to stop and restart it is by killing it and removing the PID
file.
Thanks.
Matt
p.s. In case it's helpful, am running Suse 9.2 with a fairly bare-bones
installation.
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