Re: [SSHGuard-maintainers] [SSHGuard-users] SSHGuard 1.7.0 release announcement

[Mark F. <feld@FreeBSD.org>]

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 13:02, Kevin Zheng <kev...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> On 08/29/2016 10:47, Mark Felder wrote:
>> Not sure. I was just looking for an easy hack for users of the hosts
>> backend.
> 
> If that's something people are interested in it would just involve
> translating the original hosts.c into a new sshg-fw backend.
> 
> It's only deprecated because not many people said they were using it on
> the survey, and I wasn't going to rewrite if not many were using it.
> 
> It would be trivial to implement if we assume the whole hosts.deny is
> controlled by SSHGuard. The original implementation used comment blocks
> to separate the SSHGuard-controlled parts from the rest. Do you know how
> people are usually using the hosts backend?
> 

Not sure. I've only seen one person that was using hosts file backend and noticed it is not available anymore.

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