Help -- can't SSH into my box

[Jim]

John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Stuart Sears wrote:
>   
>> Not wishing :) to open a massive can of worms (even though this probably
>> will) but why do you hate it so much?
>>
>>     
> Precisely because it interferes with so many other things. If SELinux ever 
> gets to the point where it "plays nice" with other things, or at least has 
> a nice, easy "ignore this app" sort of thing (like antivirus/anti-spyware 
> apps in Windoze) I might reconsider it. Until then, I'm going to disable it 
> whenever possible.
>
> I installed fail2ban and SELinux immediately threw up massive errors. I 
> coudl understand that much better if it were some 3rd-party app, but 
> something out of the default Fedora repos should be able to run w/o 
> generating complaints from a security system. Fail2ban, especially, should 
> be allowed to run w/o issue, due to the very nature of it.
>
>   
I installed fail2ban on a FC8 x86_64 box and selinux didn't cry one bit.
You did get fail2ban off the Fedora repos ?