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Special Forums Cybersecurity Locked out of my own server by denyhosts Post 302378450 by dheian on Tuesday 8th of December 2009 01:36:55 AM
Old 12-08-2009
Locked out of my own server by denyhosts
Sigh...

I use denyhosts for security. Been great for months, but today my butterfingers have managed to lock myself out of the server.

The denyhosts FAQ lists ways to edit the files to erase your IP, but...I'm locked out, so how can I edit the files?
 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

cdbs-edit-patch

CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)						CDBS Documentation						CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       cdbs-edit-patch - create or edit a CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch

SYNOPSIS

       cdbs-edit-patch patchname

DESCRIPTION

       cdbs-edit-patch	creates  or edits patches for use by the CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch system.	For more information about CDBS please see
       the documentation under /usr/share/doc/cdbs/.

       When patchname exists, cdbs-edit-patch will set up a temporary working source tree, apply all patches up to and including patchname in lex-
       icographic  order,  and	spawn  an  interactive shell for the developer.  The developer can then edit files in this working tree.  When the
       developer is done and exits the shell, cdbs-edit-patch updates patchname to reflect the changes made.  To abort the process from the inter-
       active shell, exit with a nonzero exit value.

       When patchname does not exist, cdbs-edit-patch will assume that a new patch should be created.  As with the above scenario, cdbs-edit-patch
       will first create a temporary working source tree and apply all patches up to the new patch in lexicographic  order.   When  the  shell	is
       quit, cdbs-edit-patch will create patchname.

AUTHOR

       CDBS  was  written  by Colin Walters and others.  cdbs-edit-patch was written by Martin Pitt.  This manual page was written by Peter Eisen-
       traut based on the dpatch-edit-patch(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

       CDBS documentation in /usr/share/doc/cdbs/, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, dpatch-edit-patch(1), quilt(1)

Debian								    5 Feb 2006							CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)
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