[Sshguard-users] Blacklist database corruption

[Mark F. <fe...@Fr...>]

The blacklist database gets corrupted sometimes. I'm now the maintainer
of sshguard on FreeBSD and I've seen several reports -- including
encountering it myself a few times. The result is that sshguard will
crash on start which is inconvenient to say the least.

The HardenedBSD folk have run into this too and Oliver Pinter wrote a
shell script[1] to fix the sshguard blacklist database. Could this be
converted into native code and handled at startup to sanitize the
database before crashing?


Thanks!


[1]
https://github.com/HardenedBSD/admin/blob/master/workaround_corrupt_sshguard_db.csh