On Jan 27, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Samir Nassar wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jason A. Nunnelley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Domenic Santangelo <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> Just wonder why you don't simply block attempts beyond 5 or 10.

That's more or less what fail2ban does, with some other options.

> If you are going to go through the effort of fail2ban and similar
> software why not use Public Key Authentication and call it good?
> 

Cause "yum install fail2ban" wasn't actually a lot of effort.

-D

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