Break-in Attempts

Kurt Wall kwall
Sun Jan 8 17:01:40 PST 2006


On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 03:40:31PM -0500, A. Khattri took 20 lines to write:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> > And 2504 of these:
> >
> > sshd[24075]: Failed password for nobody from 220.163.44.81 port 49155 ssh2
> > sshd[24079]: Failed password for invalid user patrick from 220.163.44.81 port 49195 ssh2
> > sshd[24083]: Failed password for invalid user patrick from 220.163.44.81 port 49225 ssh2
> 
> I run denyhosts on my boxes to thwart these:
> http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

K3w1. I'll have to look at this more closely. Thanks, Khattri.

Kurt
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