To cleanse the IP address from DenyHosts do the following: - Stop DH
- cd to your DH WORK_DIR - edit each file containing the ip address (grep "THE_IP_ADDR" *) - remove the ip from each file, save them - Start DH Eventually, I'll add a remove IP facility (or add'l script to perform this for you in an easier way). As for the "isn't running" issue: (1) What is the path of DENYHOSTS_LOCK is daemon-control (approx line 15 of the script)? (2) What is the value of the LOCK_FILE in your denyhosts.cfg? If (1) and (2) aren't the same, modify one to match the other. Regards, Phil On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Belorion wrote: > 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. > -- Regards, Phil Schwartz - http://www.phil-schwartz.com Open Source Projects: - DenyHosts: http://www.denyhosts.net - Kodos: http://kodos.sourceforge.net - ReleaseForge: http://releaseforge.sourceforge.net - Scratchy: http://scratchy.sourceforge.net - FAQtor: http://faqtor.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
