Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-09 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
El Martes, 2 de Enero de 2007 14:12, Nathan Vidican escribió: > In our 'periodic daily' report/email, (only the list goes on for hundreds > of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to make > sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid login attempts > are mad

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-05 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Nathan Vidican <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to > make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid > login attempts are made within a minute's time? if you use pf, it's fairly straightforward with an overload rule,

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-03 Thread Michael
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Nathan Vidican wrote: We keep getting attempts from what look like a username/password scanner utility to login to our servers externally via sshd. Thankfully, we're not ignorant enough to leave common account names open, however it is annoying to say the least. We're

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-03 Thread Peter Nyamukusa
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:34, Eric wrote: Hi, Why don't you use the /etc/rc.firewall, its a good firewall too. > Len Conrad wrote: > >> In our 'periodic daily' report/email, (only the list goes on for > >> hundreds of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy > >> way to make

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-02 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Nathan Vidican wrote: We keep getting attempts from what look like a username/password scanner utility to login to our servers externally via sshd. Thankfully, we're not ignorant enough to leave common account names open, however it is annoying to say the least. We're getting things like this:

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-02 Thread Eric
Len Conrad wrote: In our 'periodic daily' report/email, (only the list goes on for hundreds of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid login attempts are made within a minute's time? to reduce the br

Re: sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-02 Thread Len Conrad
In our 'periodic daily' report/email, (only the list goes on for hundreds of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an easy way to make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of invalid login attempts are made within a minute's time? to reduce the brute force attacks +

sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Huff
Nathan Vidican writes: > In our 'periodic daily' report/email, (only the list goes on for > hundreds of attempts). Anyhow, long story short; is there not an > easy way to make sshd block or deny hosts temporarily if X number of > invalid login attempts are made within a minute's time? Must I u

sshd break-in attempt

2007-01-02 Thread Nathan Vidican
We keep getting attempts from what look like a username/password scanner utility to login to our servers externally via sshd. Thankfully, we're not ignorant enough to leave common account names open, however it is annoying to say the least. We're getting things like this: Jan 1 09:07:34 fw ss