Robert Taylor wrote:

> I am running:
> 
> Debian 4.0
> denyhosts 2.6-1
> 
> Symptoms: denyhosts automatically adds all ip addresses to hosts.deny
> list even if they log in successfully.   Of course, the accounts that
> log in successfully only manage to do so once as they are blocked from
> doing so a second time by the hosts.deny rule.
> 
> Attempted solutions: No changes in the denyhosts.config file have any
---------------------------------------------------^^^^^^
Is this a typo? the configuration is denyhosts.cfg.

> effect.  I even tried this KNOWN TO WORK config file on my system and
> the symptoms are still the same. 
> 
> Sample known working config file can be seen here:
> http://pastebin.ca/641386 
> 
> Please note that as already noted the config file on pastebin is known
> to work and is from another users configuration yet it denyhosts still
> insists on automatically blocking all ips addresses even those that
> successfully log in once.
> 
> Any tips or suggestions would be welcome, this trully makes no sense.

Run it in debug mode (i.e. daemon-control debug), see what and why is being
matched.  Wild guess: a bad regex that matches/ignores to much.
-- 
René Berber


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