Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 245390
denyhosts installs turned off
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:08 EST
Description of problem: as installed, denyhosts is turned off by default in the chkconfig line in the initscript, AND the cron.d entries are commented out. why would i even install a package like this for security if i didn't expect it to come up working? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): denyhosts-2.6-5.fc7 How reproducible: seemingly always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install it. 2. look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/denyhosts. note it is turned off 3. look at /etc/cron.d/denyhosts. note it is turned off. Actual results: it doesn't ever work. Expected results: it to be turned on by default for at least 3 and 5 runlevels. OR, have the cron entries set up to work. Additional info: i marked this a medium severity because it seems a potential security issue.
It is rather intentional that the service is not enabled by default, especially for a service like this which can impact the ability for anyone to even access the machine. People install all sorts of packages (withess the constant requests for an "everything" install), and services like this really shouldn't just default to being on. And in any case, you'd still have to actually start the service after installing it.