Configuring denyhost on Mac OSX 10.6

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I had some trouble configuring denyhost on my Mac OS X 10.6 (user) machine as the instructions on the website @ http://www.denyhosts.net/faq.html#macos were wrong. Here is the correct configuration for denyhosts.cfg:

denyhosts.cfg

# Mac OS X (v10.4 or greater - 
#   also refer to:   http://www.denyhosts.net/faq.html#macos
# SECURE_LOG = /private/var/log/asl.log
# SSHD_FORMAT_REGEX=.* \[Sender sshd\] \[PID \d*\] \[Message .* PAM: (?P.*?)\].*?

# Mac OS X (v10.6 or greater - 
#   - reversion to standard log format. No need to do log regex parsing.
SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure.log


# zip down a bit to the bottom:

#this work_dir worked for me, it's where the python install script added it:

WORK_DIR = /usr/share/denyhosts/data

#this lock_file worked for me although I had to create the directory:

LOCK_FILE = /var/lock/subsys/denyhosts

and then for the file [daemon-control]:

###############################################
#### Edit these to suit your configuration ####
###############################################

DENYHOSTS_BIN   = "/usr/local/bin/denyhosts.py"
DENYHOSTS_LOCK  = "/var/lock/subsys/denyhosts"
DENYHOSTS_CFG   = "/usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg"

PYTHON_BIN      = "/usr/bin/env python"

Hope this helps! This is only really necessary if your Mac is on the internet with a static IP and not behind a firewall or NAT router. 99.9% of home machines are ok because they are hidden behind NAT routers, it's mostly academic machines that are in danger.

There's also some configuration to get the daemon to auto-start when the Mac boots up. I haven't gotten that worked out 100%. When I do, I'll post instructions here. Feel free to login using your facebook or other credentials to leave comments.

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denyhosts works! Check out this log:

Jun 12 13:54:57 kyoto sshd[83867]: Invalid user lcc from 208.70.77.236
Jun 12 13:54:58 kyoto sshd[83869]: Invalid user shift from 208.70.77.236
Jun 12 13:55:06 kyoto sshd[83877]: Invalid user operator from 208.70.77.236
Jun 12 13:55:07 kyoto sshd[83883]: Invalid user bin from 208.70.77.236
Jun 12 13:55:09 kyoto sshd[83887]: Invalid user webmaster from 208.70.77.236
Jun 12 13:55:11 kyoto sshd[83891]: Invalid user deng from 208.70.77.236
Jun 12 13:55:13 kyoto sshd[83897]: refused connect from 208.70.77.236
Jun 13 09:47:13 kyoto sshd[1509]: refused connect from 123.13.201.202
Jun 13 11:40:05 kyoto loginwindow[64]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.
Jun 13 11:40:05 kyoto _spotlight[3161]: audit warning: soft /var/audit
Jun 13 11:40:05 kyoto _spotlight[3162]: audit warning: allsoft
Jun 13 11:40:05 kyoto _spotlight[3164]: audit warning: closefile /var/audit/20110612041251.20110613154005
Jun 13 14:47:51 kyoto loginwindow[64]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.
Jun 13 14:47:51 kyoto karen[5949]: audit warning: allsoft
Jun 13 14:47:51 kyoto karen[5951]: audit warning: closefile /var/audit/20110613154005.20110613184751
Jun 13 14:47:51 kyoto karen[5950]: audit warning: soft /var/audit
Jun 13 18:24:08 kyoto sshd[9357]: refused connect from 202.143.145.37
Jun 14 07:03:21 kyoto sshd[20446]: Did not receive identification string from 200.58.203.85
Jun 14 07:14:58 kyoto sshd[20605]: Did not receive identification string from 200.58.203.85
Jun 14 11:27:23 kyoto sshd[24294]: refused connect from 60.216.12.25

After I installed it, I've gone to zilch hacker attacks. Yay!

Now if only I can find a good spam filter for MovableTYpe so that I can allow anonymous comments again. :-(

Here are additional config instructions for denyhost on Mac OS 10.6:


http://think.random-stuff.org/posts/denyhosts-on-mac-os-x

http://heath.hrsoftworks.net/archives/000263.html

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