On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 08:59 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 00:55 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I > > found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack > > against > > me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? > > Like someone else said, nothing special. Assuming your sshd and > passwords are configured correctly, they won't get in. > > I got so many of them, though, that my log filled the partition. So I > wrote a little shell script that checks for this frequently, and blocks > the naughty IP(s) for a few days.
Or you could write an iptables rule for it. -- marcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
