sshguard-maintainers

[SSHGuard-maintainers] SSHGuard 1.6.4 release announcement

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

Greetings,

I am pleased to announce the release of SSHGuard 1.6.4 [1]. This release
brings updated signatures, usability improvements, and bug fixes.
Highlights in this release include:

    - Match Postfix pre-authentication disconnects
    - Fix bashisms in iptables backend
    - Fix size argument in inet_ntop() call
    - Remove excessive logging when polling from files
    - Keep looking for unreadable files while polling
    - Update Dovecot signature for POP3
    - Match "Connection reset" message for SSH
    - Resurrect PID file option by popular demand
    - Adjust default abuse threshold

Most notably, some default options have changed. The abuse threshold has
been reduced to 30 (3 attacks) and the initial block time has been
lowered to 2 minutes (from 7). These settings can be overridden from the
command line. Package maintainers should check their scripts.

The PID file option (-p) has been resurrected.

As usual, please report any bugs, build failures, or other issues to
the mailing list or the Bitbucket tracker [2].

If you haven't already, please take 2-3 minutes to complete a survey
about how you use SSHGuard:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UQHrtq7uhpopWDsNmvYyVbwKpupkgHAwcd3SwmTMaNc/viewform?usp=send_form

Best,
Kevin

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshguard/files/sshguard/1.6.4/
[2] https://bitbucket.org/sshguard/sshguard/issues/

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Kevin Zheng
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Re: [SSHGuard-maintainers] [SSHGuard-users] SSHGuard 1.6.4 release announcement

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

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016, at 20:24, Kevin Zheng wrote:
> 
> Most notably, some default options have changed. The abuse threshold has
> been reduced to 30 (3 attacks) and the initial block time has been
> lowered to 2 minutes (from 7). These settings can be overridden from the
> command line. Package maintainers should check their scripts.
> 

The man page has not been updated to reflect these changes.


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  Mark Felder
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Re: [SSHGuard-maintainers] [SSHGuard-users] SSHGuard 1.6.4 release announcement

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

On 05/02/2016 08:56, Mark Felder wrote:
>> Most notably, some default options have changed. The abuse threshold has
>> been reduced to 30 (3 attacks) and the initial block time has been
>> lowered to 2 minutes (from 7). These settings can be overridden from the
>> command line. Package maintainers should check their scripts.
>>
> 
> The man page has not been updated to reflect these changes.

Oops, thanks for catching the issue. An updated man page has been
committed, and the diff between 1.6.4 is attached.

Thanks,
Kevin

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Re: [SSHGuard-maintainers] [SSHGuard-users] SSHGuard 1.6.4 release announcement

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

On Mon, May 2, 2016, at 11:42, Kevin Zheng wrote:
> On 05/02/2016 08:56, Mark Felder wrote:
> >> Most notably, some default options have changed. The abuse threshold has
> >> been reduced to 30 (3 attacks) and the initial block time has been
> >> lowered to 2 minutes (from 7). These settings can be overridden from the
> >> command line. Package maintainers should check their scripts.
> >>
> > 
> > The man page has not been updated to reflect these changes.
> 
> Oops, thanks for catching the issue. An updated man page has been
> committed, and the diff between 1.6.4 is attached.
> 

This was not noted in the release notes, but I will make sure this is
reflected in the FreeBSD port

+.B \fB\-s\fP \fIinterval\fP (default 1800 secs, or 30 minutes)


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