Re: [Sshguard-users] OpenBSD/pf Bug

[Kevin Z. <kev...@gm...>]

On 10/28/2014 08:17, Libertas wrote:
> I just wanted to mention a potential bug I encountered on a generic
> up-to-date installation of OpenBSD 5.5, using the current SSHGuard
> version in the ports tree (I think... otherwise it came from the
> packages tree). When I tried to whitelist an IP address with "sshguard
> -w <ip>", it hung indefinitely. When I came back half an hour later and
> saw it still hanging, I used ^C to kill it and saw something like
> "Permission denied: /bin/pfctl".

I will try to reproduce this issue on my machine (FreeBSD). What user
was `sshguard` running as?

> It seems that this permission denied report should be immediate, and
> that the program shouldn't hang indefinitely.

I agree; if the program needs to bail out it should do so immediately.

Best,
Kevin Zheng

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