Joop Beris wrote: > I have a question about how to remove a certain host from the blocking > process. I have followed the documented procedure as I have found it on > the website and explained here on the mailing list archive, and I think I > did everything the right way, yet the host is still automatically added to > /etc/hosts.deny.
Easy way out: add your work IP to /etc/hosts.allow, with the proper syntax of course. > Background: > I have installed denyhosts on an openSUSE 10.3 machine and it works > nicely. This machine is my home machine, and I like to connect to it from > work. However, I recently managed to lock myself out from work, while > testing denyhosts. > Of course, I would now like to unblock my IP from work, but no such luck. > What I have done to achieve this: > > - Stop de denyhosts daemon. > - Remove the host from /etc/hosts.deny > - Added the host to /[WORK-DIR]/allowed-hosts > - Removed the host from all other files in /[WORK-DIR] > - Removed the offending lines from the syslog so it would not be picked up > again by denyhosts This step may be the problem: if you manually change the log file denyhosts detects that it changed and scans it again. > - Started the denyhosts daemon > > I was under the impression that this would prevent my host from being > blocked, but unfortunately, the next time the daemon completes its run, it > is added again to /etc/hosts.deny. > > What am I doing wrong? Where did you see the step that changes the log? If it is in the FAQ, I think it should be corrected. -- René Berber ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
