Break-in Attempts

[Federico Voges]

A. Khattri wrote:
> 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/
>
>
>   
I use a quick & dirty script on my hosting server. But denyhosts looks 
very promising. I've already installed it on my home server (already 
blocked some IPs)..

Thanks for the tip :)

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Federico Voges.

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