Break-in Attempts

[Ken Moffat]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Someone is trying really lamely to break into my box using a dictionary
>attack. I have 2280 of these in my logs:
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>sshd[24079]: Invalid user patrick from 220.163.44.81 
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I installed a small app called "denyhosts" which adds any repeatedly 
failing login attempts to your hosts.deny file. You can set the 
threshold of failure. Simple and works well.

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