Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:52:19 -0700 From: "Pat Maddox" <pergesu@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to Stop Bruit Force ssh Attempts? Message-ID: <810a540e0603180952i104c77c3ld532ce31d7922a33@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <441C45BA.1030106@chrismaness.com> References: <441C45BA.1030106@chrismaness.com>
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The best thing you can do is move SSH to another port and disable password authentication, and use keys instead. Pat On 3/18/06, Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> wrote: > In my auth log I see alot of bruit force attempts to login via ssh. Is > there a way I can have the box automatically kill any tcp/ip > connectivity to hosts that try and fail a given number of times? Is > there a port or something that I can install to give this kind of > protection. I'm still kind of a FreeBSD newbie. > > Thanks, > Chris Maness > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >
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