On 10/5/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Im sure this has probably been discussed: anyway to lock out IPs that fail > to login through ssh many many times. Or some way for ssh to temporarily > ignore connections from a specific IP that is brute-forcing ssh?
There is currently a lively thread on this topic going on in the gentoo-security list. You can see the archives here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.security/2486 Personally, I'm a big fan of http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net. It's excruciatingly simple to set up and it works as advertised. -Erik -- [email protected] mailing list
