had similar at work a couple of years ago. Went with ssh keys in the end.
On 05/09/07, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> wrote:
>> Combing through the logs I also note huge numbers of brute-force
> ssh password attempts (literally tens of thousands). So I was
> pretty happy to find out about the AllowUsers and AllowGroups
> keywords in /etc/ssh/sshd_config -- now there is only one username
> that can log in.
>> It seems simpler than the denyhost package which scans the logs and
> puts the offending IPs in /etc/hosts.deny.
>> Brendan
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