On Aug 24, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
If someone is really trying to break my machine, logging the attempts to a file basically lets them denial-of-service me.
Well failed attempts are already logged to something like /var/log/ secure in most setups, and that's what DenyHosts watches. Or are you talking about the internal housekeeping files that DenyHosts keeps?
Either way, perhaps sshdfilter (http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/ ) might have an approach more to your liking.
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