620174 – app-admin/denyhosts : Removal request

Bug 620174 - app-admin/denyhosts : Removal request

Summary: app-admin/denyhosts : Removal request

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Christoph Junghans (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2017-05-29 23:38 UTC by jonathan e. Snow
Modified:	2017-06-12 01:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description jonathan e. Snow 2017-05-29 23:38:09 UTC

denyhosts requires sshd to compile against tcp-wrappers (hosts.*) to function. 
Openssh hasn't done that since 2014.

Comment 1 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-05-30 00:46:58 UTC

This is DOC_CONTENTS of the 3.0 ebuild:
">=net-misc/openssh-6.7p1 dropped support for sys-apps/tcp-wrappers
(see bug#531156) that means you either have patch openssh or use
denyhosts' iptables feature to get any protection."

Last time I checked iptables support worked great with denyhosts, so why should we remove it?

Comment 2 Christoph Junghans (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-06-08 23:31:26 UTC

Ping @ jonathan