auser / chef-denyhosts

Chef cookbook for denyhosts package

DESCRIPTION

Installs the denyhosts package from (http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/). Currently only targeting Ubuntu platform. It's not complicated and would work on other platforms, but that can come later.

REQUIREMENTS

Supported Platforms

The following platforms are supported by this cookbook, meaning that the recipes run on these platforms without error:

• Ubuntu
• Debian

ATTRIBUTES

admin_email

Email address that will receive notifications.

The default is root@localhost.

smtp_host

SMTP server hostname to use for outgoing mail.

The default is localhost.

smtp_port

SMTP server port number to use for outgoing mail.

The default is 25.

smtp_from

Email address that will be used to send outgoing mail

The default is denyhosts@localhost.

allowed_hosts

Hostnames that will always be allowed to connect.

The default is [].

USAGE

This cookbook installs denyhosts if not present and pulls updates if it is installed on the system.

LICENSE and AUTHOR:

Author:: Phil Cohen ([email protected])

Copyright:: 2011, Phil Cohen

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.