On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 09:50 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2012, at 08:21, Kevin Brennan wrote:
> > - install denyhosts
> Or fail2ban, which can secure more than just ssh.
Well you can use both ;-)
the nice thing about denyhosts is that it uses a distributed list of
'miscreant' IP's so a great many attempts will be blocked before they
even get one try at SSH.
fail2ban is great and can do all sorts of things, one of the things I
use it for is parsing asterisk logs and dropping brute force attempts on
our asterisk servers
.brendan
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