Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:07:28PM -0500, Richard Marza wrote Thank you for the information, I did find that denyhost and fail2ban in threads but there were issues with it not working properly. Some users created custom scripts to get the job done correctly. Have you considered not

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 15 November 2009 08:21:55 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 07:07:28PM -0500, Richard Marza wrote Thank you for the information, I did find that denyhost and fail2ban in threads but there were issues with it not working properly. Some users created custom scripts to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:21:55 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: Have you considered not allowing password-based logins at all for ssh? Use RSA keys instead. It's much easier, and much more secure. That doesn't stop the attempts. -- Neil Bothwick Quantum leap: (adj.) literally, to move by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread KH
Richard Marza schrieb: I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum of

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-15 Thread Richard Marza
- Original Message - From: KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd Richard Marza schrieb: I recently check my log files and discovered

[gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-14 Thread Richard Marza
I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum of attempts has occured and

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Richard Marza writes: I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP addresses using iptables. Something that checks to see if a minimum of

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:49:23 Richard Marza wrote: I recently check my log files and discovered that there was a dictionary attack attempt on my daemons. sshd and vsftpd were the primary targets. Is there a script or tool to block the offending IP addresses using iptables. Something

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd

2009-11-14 Thread Richard Marza
- Original Message - From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking login attempts to sshd and vsftpd On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:49:23 Richard Marza wrote: I recently