From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:43:02 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060605154302.53387.qmail@web31813.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1823.192.168.0.11.1149521244.squirrel@www.kernelpanic.ch>
> Try use Denyhosts ... no problem with bruteforce attacks anymore. Denyhosts
> add the IP of the attacker to the /etc/hosts.deny file.
> Install it with:
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge denyhosts
> and add to your /etc/crontab
> */10 * * * * root python /usr/bin/denyhosts -c /etc/denyhosts.conf
>
> Use it now for more then a year... its perfect to block bruteforce attacks.
Also, you can edit your denyhost conf file to report affending IP to their denyhosts server and
also download an updated list of affending IP that other community members have reported. Using
this feature, you wont give "crackers" a first chance at getting to your server.
Regards,
Richard Broersma
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-05 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-05 15:06 [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue Leandro Melo de Sales
2006-06-05 15:27 ` Oliver Schmidt
2006-06-05 15:43 ` Richard Broersma Jr [this message]
2006-06-05 15:50 ` Willie Wong
2006-06-05 17:15 ` Leandro Melo de Sales
2006-06-05 17:47 ` Justin R Findlay
2006-06-05 22:21 ` Jeremy Olexa
2006-06-06 5:25 ` Leandro Melo de Sales
2006-06-05 17:56 ` Steven Susbauer
2006-06-05 15:30 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-06-05 16:09 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-06-05 16:31 ` Joseph
2006-06-05 17:11 ` Leandro Melo de Sales
2006-06-05 17:12 ` Leandro Melo de Sales
2006-06-05 17:54 ` Petr Uzel
2006-06-05 20:48 ` Joseph
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2006-06-05 16:36 CR Little
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