Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:20:43 -0600 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd break-in attempt Message-ID: <200701021505921.SM00292@TX2.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <459A5A45.4080309@wmptl.com> References: <459A5A45.4080309@wmptl.com>
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> >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 + voluminous logging, tell sshd to listen on port other than 22. google for "tcp wrappers sshd" for examples of how to use tcp wrappers in reactive blocking Len
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