From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 28 00:38:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4F316A57D for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:38:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com) Received: from nawcom.no-ip.com (adsl-69-208-125-59.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [69.208.125.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4538043D4C for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:37:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com) Received: from [192.168.212.4] (unknown [192.168.212.4]) by nawcom.no-ip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3EE77F5; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <43110754.6010608@nawcom.no-ip.com> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:37:40 -0400 From: nawcom User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200508280029.j7S0T7X4043956@app.auscert.org.au> In-Reply-To: <200508280029.j7S0T7X4043956@app.auscert.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:38:10 -0000 if this server was used by 100+ people i would of course not have such a harsh security script set up. everyone who uses it has great experience and understands the consequences. like i said before, this is usually for personal use and has about 12 users total. if this was used to manage ssh on something big i would lower the security measures. hope you can understand some now :) Ben freebsd-questions@auscert.org.au wrote: >>-if the attempt was with a username that doesnt exist - i add the ip to >>a db of banned ips and flush and restart ipfw >> >> > >I'm curious about this bit - what do you do about accidentally mistyped >usernames by valid users? > >cheers, >-- Joel Hatton -- >Security Analyst | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 >AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 >The University of Queensland | WWW: www.auscert.org.au >Qld 4072 Australia | Email: auscert@auscert.org.au >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >