Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:30:12 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sshd break-in attempt Message-ID: <17818.24164.418874.835516@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <459A5A45.4080309@wmptl.com> References: <459A5A45.4080309@wmptl.com>
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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 use > an external wrapper to accomplish this, or can it be done with > options to sshd on it's own? I don't know of any internal-to-ssh way to do this. Me, I use security/denyhosts; it's a minor pain to configure though that only need be done once. Robert Huff
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