Personally I am using SSHBlack for that. Very powerful script. Take a look there
http://www.pettingers.org/code/sshblack.html Rgds, 2008/9/29 Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Brent Clark wrote: > >> Michael Tautschnig wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> since two days (approx.) I'm seeing an extremely high number of >>> apparently >>> coordinated (well, at least they are trying the same list of usernames) >>> brute >>> force attempts from IP addresses spread all over the world. I've got >>> denyhosts >>> and an additional iptables based firewall solution in place to mitigate >>> these >>> since quite some time already and this seems to do the trick in terms of >>> blocking them fairly quickly. >>> >>> >>> >> Hi >> > > I know this thread is closed, but come across sshguard. Was reminded of > Michael, that needed the above help. > > sshguard - monitors daemon activity > > HTH. > > Regards > Brent Clark > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

