Break-in Attempts

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:47:58PM -0500, Ken Moffat took 25 lines to write:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 

[whine about scripted dictionary attack]

> 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.

So it is and so it does. It's probably more prudent to block them at
the IP level with IPtables, but DenyHosts is simple enough. Thanks for
the tip -- I've already got several offenders listed.

Kurt
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