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I'm looking for a sort of tripwire that, when a certain IP connects to the SSH server and uses the wrong password 5 times in a row, my server adds ...
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- 01-25-2009 #1Just Joined!
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SSH Tripwire
I'm looking for a sort of tripwire that, when a certain IP connects to the SSH server and uses the wrong password 5 times in a row, my server adds it to /etc/hosts.deny.
How do I do this?
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Dan
- 01-25-2009 #2Linux Engineer
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maybe something like this
Samhain Labs | Defending against brute force ssh attacks
- 01-26-2009 #3Linux Guru
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This is what Fail2ban was designed for...
- 01-26-2009 #4Just Joined!
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Thanks. I've done the IPTables approach!
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