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Mavericks and hosts.deny

I have a perl script that monitors system.log for sshd connections and throttles bogus connections. When a bogus connection is observed, it adds the appropriate IP address of the offending connection to /etc/hosts.deny. After 15 minutes, the entry is then removed.


This has worked fine for Mac OS X versions < 10.9. However, 10.9 doesn't seem to be honoring /etc/hosts.deny. Is there a way to enable the behavior of the previous OSes?

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 19, 2014 12:17 PM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2014 1:18 PM

libwrap is absent from Mavericks. You would have to install it yourself, or use something that doesn't depend on it, such as sshGuard.

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