denyhosts

Hi

Ubuntu 8.04 desktop, LAMP,Firestarter,Denyhosts on a DMZ port of a router.
4 different Win and Linux stations on the LAN.

Denyhosts does a great job except for one thing.

I can't upload any file from the LAN to the server with FileZilla. The
connection opens but the transfer is rejected. Then the address of the
sending station on the lan is written in hosts.deny even if I have ALL:
192.168.2. in hosts.allow

How can I set denyhosts to accept all actions from identified machines ?

The other stations are used in the wood shop, the paint shop etc and I
must UL/DL in order to use or save files to the server. I can also be on
the road and need a file from the server.


Thanks

Keith Keller a écrit :
> On 2010-03-28, Moe Trin <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in
>> article <honmm5$t9$(E-Mail Removed)>, Big Bill wrote:
>>
>>> How can I set denyhosts to accept all actions from identified machines ?
>> Denyhosts doesn't seem to have a 'whitelist' (ignore) capability.
>
> Yes it does.
>
> http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#3_7
>
>> Use a ``valid'' username when you're connecting.
>
> If you use a valid username but bad password too many times, DenyHosts
> will block you, unless you're in the allowed-hosts file.

The ID used with Filezilla is a registered user of the system and not
the admin'.

Before firestarter, I could access the server by it's name (pingouin),
now it's only available by it's ip. No big deal. Filezilla could
transfer without a problem.

Since Denyhosts, no transfers. I can access the server with putty,
winscp, scp, all using admin id but not filezilla who uses another id.

Logins have been modified in filezilla to reflect the rules of
firestarter but still no success.

At the very first try, denyhosts blacklists the address.

> The OP may still need to manually modify hosts.deny and restart
> denyhosts in order to have any added entries to allowed-hosts to take
> effect.
>

Is there more controlable utility that I could use instead ? Something
light preferably as it's not a commercial server and I'm not a pro OP.

Big Bill a écrit :

I've finally found what was wrong.

A mispelled user in vsftpd conf files. Now filezilla works and denyhosts
doesn't complain anymore.


Thanks you all for your answers

Moe Trin a écrit :
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in
> article <hoqghh$169p$(E-Mail Removed)>, Big Bill wrote:
>
>> I've finally found what was wrong.
>>
>> A mispelled user in vsftpd conf files.
>
> Yup - that will do it every time.
>
>> Now filezilla works and denyhosts doesn't complain anymore.
>
> denyhost wasn't complaining - vsftpd was. denyhost was merely
> blocking what vsftpd was complaining about. Even without denyhost,
> you wouldn't be able to connect.
>
> Old guy
Right.

Thanks