SSHMonitor

Notice:

[OLD] As of 01-07-2020, this app no longer runs when using Python3.

[OLD] As of 07-21-2020, this app is now compatible with Python3. Checkout this branch for use with Python3: https://github.com/amboxer21/SSHMonitor2.7/tree/SSHMonitor3

[OLD] As of 07-21-2020, this app can be used with both Python3 AND Python2.

[LATEST] As of 02-17-2021, the app is to be referred to as SSHMonitor instead of SSHMonitor2.7. The name change happened along time ago but I am now just updating this.

Important:

The notify with ui option is broken with Python3. There seems to be an issue with the ctypes system library. See issue #22.

Please change the email address in the daemon file located in src/etc/init.d/sshmonitord.sh

About:

SSHMonitor monitors incoming ssh requests and will notify you on failed, successful or banned(IP via iptables/sshgaurd) attempts whether they're successful or not. PLEASE FORK INSTEAD OF CLONE THIS REPO. I would greatly appreciate it! Also, you are going to need to setup an outgoing E-mail server in order for the program to work.

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Build program:

[anthony@ghost SSHMonitor]$ sudo python setup.py install

NOTE: sshmonitor.py is installed into the /usr/local/bin/ directory. This is not normally in a users default path. Which means that you'll need to add /usr/local/bin/ to your path in your bashrc.

Add this to your ~/.bashrc: export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"

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You can install sshmonitor via pip as well.

pip install sshmonitor

EDIT: PIP package has been removed from pypi for now.

Website: https://pypi.org/project/sshmonitor/

Installation command:

pip install sshmonitor

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Checking out SSHMonitor3 branch

If you already have a cloned repo on your localhost

anthony@ghost:~/Documents/SSHMonitor$ git branch --track SSHMonitor3 origin/SSHMonitor3
Branch 'SSHMonitor3' set up to track remote branch 'SSHMonitor3' from 'origin'.
anthony@ghost:~/Documents/SSHMonitor$ git checkout SSHMonitor3
Switched to branch 'SSHMonitor3'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/SSHMonitor3'.
anthony@ghost:~/Documents/SSHMonitor$ git branch
* SSHMonitor3
  master
anthony@ghost:~/Documents/SSHMonitor$ 

Checking out the SSHMonitor3 branch ONLY

anthony@ghost:~/Documents$ git clone git@github.com:amboxer21/SSHMonitor.git -bSSHMonitor3
Cloning into 'SSHMonitor'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 15, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (15/15), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (15/15), done.
remote: Total 1009 (delta 6), reused 1 (delta 0), pack-reused 994
Receiving objects: 100% (1009/1009), 3.76 MiB | 10.79 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (586/586), done.
anthony@ghost:~/Documents$ cd SSHMonitor/
anthony@ghost:~/Documents/SSHMonitor$ git branch
* SSHMonitor3
anthony@ghost:~/Documents/SSHMonitor$

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Compiling

Creating libmasquerade shared object WITHOUT pthread

gcc -c -fPIC masquerade.c -o masquerade.o
gcc masquerade.o -shared -o libmasquerade.so

or

gcc -shared -o libmasquerade.so -fPIC masquerade.c

anthony@ghost:~/Documents/Python/SSHMonitor/src$ ldd libmasquerade.so
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff7a942000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f959891b000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9598b02000)
anthony@ghost:~/Documents/Python/SSHMonitor/src$

Creating libmasquerade shared object WITH pthread

gcc -c -fPIC masquerade.c -o masquerade.o
gcc masquerade.o -shared -o libmasquerade.so -lpthread

or

gcc -shared -o libmasquerade.so -fPIC masquerade.c -lpthread

anthony@ghost:~/Documents/Python/SSHMonitor/src$ ldd libmasquerade.so
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc76d36000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fa6dcd2a000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa6dcb69000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa6dcd71000)
anthony@ghost:~/Documents/Python/SSHMonitor/src$

Compile GTK UI WITH pthread

gcc notify-gtk.c -o notify-gtk `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` -lpthread

or

gcc -shared -o libmasquerade.so -fPIC masquerade.c -lpthread

Compile GTK UI WITHOUT pthread

gcc notify-gtk.c -o notify-gtk `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`

or

gcc -shared -o libmasquerade.so -fPIC masquerade.c

Testing the UI with Python2.x

anthony@ghost:~/Documents/Python/sshmonitor/src$ sudo python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22) 
[GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os, ctypes
>>> from ctypes import cdll
>>> libmasquerade = cdll.LoadLibrary('/home/anthony/Documents/Python/sshmonitor/src/libmasquerade.so')
>>> libmasquerade.masquerade('anthony')
anthony

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NOTE: Patch is no longer needed for newer versions of python, namely 3.x.x.