Denyhost stores a useful conf file in /var/lib/denyhosts

[gpk]

Binary package hint: denyhosts

/var/lib/denyhosts/restricted-usernames is a useful file that you can fill up with user names like "sales" or "guest" and anyone who tries to log in as these users will be denied rapidly. Denyhost itself does not modify the contents of that file. Therefore, it functions as a configuration file. Therefore, it should be in /etc .

I've been annoyed by this a few times when installing a new version of linux. I keep a copy of /etc/ and I always lose my list of usernames for denyhost. Then I have to go back to looking at /var/log/auth.log to recreate it by looking at failed login attempts.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: denyhosts 2.6-7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 13 22:43:44 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: denyhosts

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.